Sarajevo Winter Olympics Museum
Olimpijski muzej Sarajevo | |
Former name | The Mandić Villa |
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| Established | 1984 |
| Location | Petrakijina street, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina |
| Type | Olympic museum |
| Director | Edin Numankadić |
| Architect | Karel Pařík |
| Nearest parking | On site |
| Website | https://okbih.ba/ |
The Sarajevo Winter Olympics Museum is a museum dedicated to the XIV Winter Olympic Games and the XIV European Youth Olympic Winter Festival that were both held respectively in 1984 and 2019 in Sarajevo.
It was founded by the decision of the Organizing Committee of the XIV Winter Olympic Games with the desire to permanently preserve the memory of the organization and the Olympic event. The museum opened on February 8, 1984.
The museum realized more than 300 thematic programs from 1984 to 1992. The museum was destroyed on April 27, 1992, during the Siege of Sarajevo. Saved artifacts were transferred to a new Olympic museum that opened in 2004 on the 20th anniversary of the Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo which is located in the Zetra Olympic Hall.
On October 8, 2020, the museum was reopened and had new features from the 2019 Winter Olympic youth festival that was held in Sarajevo and East Sarajevo.