Bosniak Institute, Sarajevo

The Bosniak Institute is a unique institution of culture and scholarship. It is a museum and a gallery, a cultural centre and a library, a publishing house and a cultural centre, everything at the same time. The Institute is the result of decades-long activities and efforts of its founder, Adil Zulfikarpašić, an endower, patron, businessman, politician and champion of promotion of cultural and educational life in Bosnia and Herzegovina, who, together with his wife Tatjana Zulfikarpašić, collected and preserved cultural heritage and contemporary production about Bosnia and Herzegovina, ranging from documents, photographs, postcards, maps, to books, encyclopaedias, journals, and other archival and library materials. The Bosniak Institute was founded in Zurich in 1988, and after the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina the entire stock was moved to Sarajevo when the Bosniak Institute was opened in 2001. ()