On Wednesday, May 6, 2015, Assist. Prof. Dr. Aliye Mataracı organized a visit to Sarajevo Museum 1878-1918with her students from Historical Thought course. The aim of this visit was to analyze the permanent exhibition that desplays Sarajevo during the Austro-Hungarian period (1878-1918). The chronological and thematic exhibition begins with a presentation of the events preceding the Berlin Congress when Austria-Hungary was given a mandate to administer Bosnia and Herzegovina and concludes with the World War I.
Students had the opportunity to discuss the significant historic events of the period at the exhibition site. They compared and contrasted the historical narrative(s) of the assassination of the heir presumptive, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie with the representation of this world significant historic event in the exhibition as an exercise of comparison of historical “reality” and its representation. This visit to the museum was very interesting for IUS students and for museum staff as well.
