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© 2020, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847110606 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737010603 looked also at the Turkish artifacts in order to present a narrative where all confessionswouldbeequally treated.AsignofK#llay’swill todemonstrate the roleplayedinthisnewfieldofresearchbybothprovinceswastheorganizationin 1894 of the congress of archeology and anthropology in Sarajevo:53 it was the occasiontoaffirmbosˇnjasˇtvo transnational identity.Yet therewasnotaproper buildingforthemuseumwhichcollectionswereaccumulatingandbadlyhoused in thePension fundbuilding. Since themuseumwas also supposed to fulfill a pedagogicaldutybywelcomingtheschoolchildren, theneedforavastbuilding wasobviousandthiswouldalsoservethediscourseoverdevelopmentofBosnia andHerzegovina.ThecommissionwasgiventoKarelParˇ&kattheoccasionofthe new urban planning in 1906. The building was finished in 1909: it shows an undeniable historicist style similar tomanyothermuseumsbuilt elsewhere in theempirewhichParˇ&khadextensivelystudiedduringafieldtripthattookhim alsoabroad.54Abotanicalgardenwascreatedintheatriumofthemuseumthatis divided into four pavilions (Prehistory, Antiquity, Ethnography, and Natural History). IntheendtheMuslimpresenceinthemuseumwaslimitedtovery few elements.Thesamecanbesaidaboutthemuseum’sjournal,Glasnikzemaljskog muzeja, edited by Truhelka that was sent to all the schools of the territory.55 FrancisJosephhadonlyoneoccasiontovisitBosniaandHerzegovinaandhe did it for the inaugurationof theDiet inMay1910.He travelled tobothcapital citiesofSarajevoandMostar.HearrivedinSarajevoonMay30thandstayeduntil June3rdwhenhedeparted forMostar.Theannouncementof thevisit causedan incredible agitation in town: Mayor Essad Kulovic´ asked the inhabitants to decoratetheirhousesanddeckthemwithflags.TheSarajevoerTagblattdevoted aspecialissueentitledKaisernummeron31Maytoreportonthefirststepsofthe visit.Theemperorwaswelcomedbythemayortowhomheansweredinhisusual polite andneutral toneexpressinghis satisfaction: “WithjoyfulheartdoIcomeheretovisit for thefirst timeMyprovincialcapitalandto spendafewdaysamongtheinhabitantsofthisdynamiccityaswellaswiththecitizens ofthisbeautifulcountry.Decadesofcivilizationwork(Kulturarbeit)havecreatedsolid linksbetweenthemost recent inhabitantsof theAustro-Hungarianmonarchyand its other parts; the feelings that are expressed toMeare avaluable sign that the loyalty towards therulinghousehasdeeproots.” 53 SrecˇkoM.Dzˇaja,Politicˇki okviri kulturne i znanstvenedjelatnosti uBosni iHercegoviniu austro-ugarskomrazdoblju (1878–1918) [Thepolitical frameworkofcultural andscientific activities in Bosnia andHerzegovina at the time of Austria-Hungary], in: C´iro Truhelka, Zbornik,Zagreb1994,p. 13–14. 54 Jirˇ&Kudeˇla/BrankaDimitrijevic´/IvoVac&k(ed.),ArhitektKarelParˇ&k1857–1942. Cˇehkoji je gradioevropskoSarajevo[ACzechwhobuiltEuropeanSarajevo],Sarajevo2007,p. 122–123. 55 Bagaric´,Museumundnationale Identitäten (seenote52),p. 155. CatherineHorel292