Museums in Bosnia and Herzegovina – the Sarajevo VRX Immersive Museum

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country that not only preserves its history, but lives it. In almost every town, museums tell of bygone eras, of art and crafts, of people’s everyday lives, of splendor and wounds. Whether in Sarajevo, Mostar, Banja Luka or in small towns in the country’s interior – each museum is a separate chapter in the great book of Bosnian culture.

On Lela’s World we take you on a journey through this fascinating museum landscape. We visit places where history is not hidden behind glass, but becomes tangible – through stories, exhibits, technology and emotion.

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Sarajevo VRX – When history becomes an experience

Our new section kicks off with a particularly innovative project: the Sarajevo VRX Immersive Museum. It shows how tradition and the future meet in Bosnia and Herzegovina – when historical events can be experienced anew with the help of virtual reality.

In the midst of the events of 1914

I freeze for a moment and look into the assassin’s eyes. Did the bullet from his gun just miss me?
I turn around frantically to follow her – she hits it! I’m sitting in the passenger seat next to the unfortunate driver who chose a route that wasn’t actually intended.

Sarajevo has many museums – but hardly any combine past and future as impressively as the Sarajevo VRX Immersive Museum. Here, history is not told, but experienced.

Virtual time travel to Sarajevo in 1914

The experience makes the past accessible in a completely new way. The focus is on the 12-minute VR film about Gavrilo Princip and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand – the event that triggered the First World War in 1914 and changed the world.

Visitors stand in the middle of the historical scene, feel the atmosphere of those days and experience Sarajevo from a perspective that otherwise only contemporary witnesses knew.

From the idea to immersive reality

The idea came from Jovana Musić, CEO and co-founder of the museum, who has realized a visionary project together with her business partner Edin Saračević.

After years of travelling through European museums, she realized that virtual reality (VR) is more than just a technical toy – it is a new, immersive storytelling medium.
“I wanted visitors to not only see Sarajevo, but to feel it,” says Musić.

The realization took almost a year: from writing the script and collecting historical documents to the elaborate 360° production of the film. The team was supported by the staff of Sarajevo’s museums, who provided access to rare original photos and recordings from the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.

An experience for all the senses

In addition to the film, the museum – centrally located and in the immediate vicinity of many sights – offers a small but carefully curated photo exhibition with rare material from the pre-war period.

A look into the future

But Sarajevo VRX is not a one-off project. Jovana Musić and her team are already planning more VR films about important events in Bosnian history – and perhaps soon about other cities too.

Anyone visiting Sarajevo should definitely have this museum on their bucket list. It is not just a journey into the past, but a glimpse into the future of memory – a place where innovative technology and emotion go hand in hand.

Experience history with Lela Djehuti from Lela’s Welt x Superb Adventures Tours

If you really want to understand Sarajevo, you shouldn’t just see history, you should experience it. Together with Superb Adventures Tours, you can discover the SarajevoVRX Immersive Museum as part of a guided city tour – combined with a visit to the Museum of the Assassination, the very place where the shots that changed the course of the world were fired in 1914.

👉 You can find the link to the booking here.

The tour combines past and present in an impressive way: While you enter the original sites in the Museum of the Assassination, the VRX Museum takes you right into the heart of the historical scene – as if you were there yourself.

The price for the combined experience is €40 per person and offers a unique insight into the history of Sarajevo – intense, emotional and unforgettable.