Humac Museum

Generation of Herzegovina priest’s has collected, guarded, and traced the remains of their country which originate from a wide period. The museum has a significant collection of relics from the Roman settlements and the Humac plate, one of the oldest and most important Cyrillic monuments in BiH.

If you are a history lover and like to learn about the origins of the country you are visiting, this is a perfect place for you to visit.

The Franciscan Monastery of St. Ante Padovan on Humac is the oldest museum in BiH, founded in 1884. Here is also the Humačka ploča(Humac plate) from XII. century, the oldest preserved monument is written in Croatian (a mixture of Glagolitic and Old Croatian Cyrillic also called bosančica) on the territory of today’s Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The idea of museum formation appeared in the mid-19th century in the circle of Herzegovinian Franciscans. Studying at the Italian and Austrian universities at that time and sightseeing the museums where they could see a few exhibits from their homeland, on the one hand, and the recognition of the great illumination and the lack of schools and cultural institutions, were the idea of establishing such an institution in Herzegovina.