Deutsches Historisches Museum - Verf�hrung Freiheit. Kunst in Europa seit 1945 - Blog

Part of our exhibition was supposed be displayed at the Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo from May to July 2014. An international seminar, The Realities of Politics, was planned for the same period. Both events had to be cancelled because the Art Gallery was forced to close. Prior to the closure, its employees had been struggling for almost a year to keep the museum functioning without pay or other financial means. The National Museum and six other institutions were also forced to close in early October 2012. The museum employees nailed thick wooden boards across the entry door, marked with the words, ‘Closed’—after 124 years. Our co-curator Henry Meyric Hughes explains the reasons, which are as tragic as they are political, in his recounting of the trip to Sarajevo.