Archive of the Institute of Musicology, Music Academy declared the National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina

At the session of the Commission for Preservation of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina held on 6/12/2018, the Archives of the Institute of Musicology of the Music Academy of the University of Sarajevo was proclaimed a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Institute of Musicology was founded in 2003 as the ninth organizational unit of the Music Academy in Sarajevo. Over the past fifteen years, the Institute of Musicology has developed into a unique center with the most extensive handwritten and sound archive in which musicological and ethnomusicological research in Bosnia and Herzegovina is continuously carried out. The archive of the Institute is the largest of its kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina and it can be divided into two parts: musicological and ethnomusicological.
Thanks to the collaboration with other institutions and researchers, the Institute has digital copies of handwritten materials by Friedrich Krauss, Gerhard Gesemann, Deben Bhattachary and Jelena Dopuđa, as well as digital copies of historical scientific soundtracks of the Bosnian Herzegovinian that were created in the period 1907-1965 which emerged as a result of the research of Eduard Wolter, Matthias Murke, Felix Hoerburger and Deben Bhattachary. Since 2000, the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology has also organized new field research, and the recordings and accompanying documentation are stored at the Institute of Musicology.
Archival material is stored at the Institute, the Ethnomusicology and Library Departments library of the Music Academy, and is still only partially arranged and hard to reach.