📢 We’re hiring! The WCM is looking for passionate individuals to join our team: 💡 Social Media Content Creator (Sarajevo/Remote) 💡 Philanthropy Officer (Sarajevo/Remote) 📧 Submit your application today! warchildhood.org/join-our-team/ #Hiring #Jobs

ICYMI: Check out this gameplay video of We Grew Up in War by Charles Games 🫧 Working on We Grew Up in War! in collaboration with War Childhood Museum 👇 #gamedev #indiedev

Students from NYU Abu Dhabi finished their field visit to #Bosnia last week, which included trips to Sarajevo, Mostar, and Srebrenica. #PCRCBiH was proud to co-organize this trip for 15 students and scholars, led by Professor Rezarta Bilali (NYU Steinhardt). During their trip

Tomorrow, Jasminko Halilović, founder of the WCM, joins Alison Tickell (Julie's Bicycle) in the keynote at the Arts and Culture for a Socially Impactful Europe conference in #Lisbon, hosted by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. 🔗Follow online: gulbenkian.pt/en/agenda/arts…

It was an honor to welcome Ambassador Diwald to the War Childhood Museum today.

🎉 Our 2024 Annual Report is out! Take a look at our key achievements in education, exhibitions, and research, plus insights into our future plans. 🎈 🔗Read the full report: warchildhood.org/annual-report-… Музей воєнного дитинства

Three years ago the world witnessed Russia launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. For many children in Ukraine, those days are etched deeply in their memories. We share their stories to ensure their experiences are remembered and heard. Read more: bit.ly/4gSJCf7

Survivors use art to heal & #breakthesilence. The Body Maps project features life-sized silhouettes by SEMA Network members Mirsada & Behija, symbolizing trauma and support. Featured in War Childhood Museum ’s Speaking Out exhibition (2021). Check it out here ➡️ semanetwork.org/project/body-m…

🎥 We regularly share stories from our contributors—those who help preserve the memory of childhood in war. Meet Mirela Geko, one of the first to record a testimony for the WCM, sharing a powerful story of loss and resilience. 🔗 Full interview: warchildhood.org/interview-with…

🧵 🇧🇦 Bosnia's War Childhood Museum marked its eighth anniversary with an exhibition of photographs by Milomir Kovacevic Strasni of children during the siege of Sarajevo along with their adult selves – a visual testament to their resilience and survival. balkaninsight.com/2025/04/01/chi…

Our game about kids caught in wars has an interactive coloring book.🖍️We’re not gonna reveal what happens after you fill it, but you can wishlist the game and find for yourself when it releases early in 2026: store.steampowered.com/app/3254380/We… Made with War Childhood Museum & MEMENTOES_EU

🎈📸 Take a look at what’s been happening at the War Childhood Museum this March! warchildhood.org/march-in-the-w…

Thanks again to War Childhood Museum for the talk about all of the amazing things you are doing globally to research war childhood – Newcastle University Geography students get so much out of seeing human stories of war rather than thinking in terms of numbers and statistics

Amazing news from Dubrovnik! 🌈 Huge thanks to the jury at Reboot Develop and Raw Fury | OLYMPIAN TRIALS ANNOUNCED🔥 for awarding our upcoming project We Grew Up in War – made in collaboration with the War Childhood Museum! If we missed each other at the event, feel free to reach out — happy to get in touch!

Eurocities Creative Europe European Commission EU Enlargement & Eastern Neighbourhood 🇪🇺 Creative Europe Desk Bosnia and Herzegovina Međunarodni Forum Bosna International Summer School Youth and Heritage Amra Hadzimuhamedovic Europa Nostra 2nd day of #PeerLearning visit in #Sarajevo 🇧🇦🇪🇺 highlighted the theme of memory & urban resilience through community engagement & innovation 🏛️🕊️ with visits to the Ottoman-period Svrzina house, the War Childhood Museum, and the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

🎓The 2025 “Lejla Hairlahović-Hušić” Scholarship has been awarded to PhD candidate Amer Maslo for his research on childhood during the 1875–78 uprising in BiH. 📚 His work will compare children’s experiences across four wars. 🔗 Read more in the article! warchildhood.org/lejla-hairlaho…

1/4 🎈Now on display at our temporary exhibition “Listen” in Linköping, Sweden, Aisha’s Story is part of the WCM collection highlighting the lived experiences of Palestinian children.

2/4 Documented by Aisha’s teacher at an elementary school in Gaza, her story was recorded before the current, devastating escalation of violence that continues to claim the lives of countless children. We have no current information about Aisha or her whereabouts.

3/4 Since October 2023, we have been exhibiting stories from our Gaza collection in our permanent and temporary exhibitions, at the events we participate in, and on our online channels.

4/4 We continue to document and share the stories of children and childhoods affected by war—with the hope that listening will lead to greater understanding, accountability, and action to protect children everywhere.