Though Bosnia's National Museum was shut three years ago, loyal employees have occupied the building, whose treasures include an ancient Jewish manuscript, to shame authorities into reopening it, AFP reports.
The museum, Bosnia's oldest, is a 19th-century legacy of the Austro-Hungarian empire that has never before closed, despite two world warsand Bosnia's own bloody 1992-95 conflict following the breakup of the old Yugoslav federation. But the venerable institution finally fell victim to political feuding in a still deeply divided country that shuns "state" symbols, protesters say. And they want no more of it.