Bosnian museum of wartime childhood aims to go global, wins top prize

A museum employee stands at the exhibition in the Bosnian War Childhood museum in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina December 7, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - In just a year, a small Bosnian museum dedicated to the experience of growing up during the Balkan wars has opened its doors, won a best European museum prize and decided to go global.

The War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo, a trove of memorabilia from Bosnians whose childhood was traumatized by the 1990s war, has started collecting personal items from children affected by other wars, such as those in Syria and Ukraine.