The Sarajevo War Childhood Museum exhibition will be in Belgrade for the first time from March 29 to April 10, showing the experiences of children who experienced war.

The exhibition in Belgrade, organized by the Belgrade-based Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR), will open on the evening of March 28.

The Belgrade exhibition is part of the Sarajevo museum’s collection which includes the stories of children from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Kosovo, Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq as well as Ukraine. The stories of Serbian children who went through the NATO air campaign in 1999.

YIHR has invited everyone whose childhood was marked by war both in the region and elsewhere to donate personal items to the museum and tell their stories which will become part of the Sarajevo museum’s collection. YIHR program Director Sofija Todorovic said that the exhibition will feature a large number of items and multi-media testimonials in order to “give a voice to the people who went through war as children”.

War Childhood Museum founder Jasminko Halilovic and the head of its office in Ukraine Iulia Skubytska will be in Belgrade for the opening.

The War Childhood Museum is the first one of its kind in the world and deals only with the perspective of children in war. The project was launched as a web page in 2010 collecting stories of childhoods at war which were later published as the book Childhood in War, followed by the museum which was opened in 2017 in Sarajevo. It won the Council fo Europe Museum Award in 2018.