The Building
A hammam
reborn as
memory
Sixteenth-century Ottoman architecture, repurposed to hold the weight of history.
Sixteenth-century Ottoman architecture, repurposed to hold the weight of history.
The museum is housed in one of Mostar's finest examples of Ottoman civic architecture.
Built during the golden age of Ottoman construction in the Balkans.
During the war of 1992–1995, this ancient structure survived.
Multiple lead-clad domes.
Thick rubble-stone walls.
Vaulted interior chambers.
"The hammam witnessed centuries of ordinary life."