Despića kuća i zaostavština porodice Despić u zbirci Muzeja grada Sarajeva
Despić house and heritage of Despić family in collection of Sarajevo City museum

Summary/Abstract: Subject of this work is Despic family of Sarajevo, a respectable Serbian commercial family, which was a part of bourgeois elite of Sarajevo in the 19th and in first half of the 20th century. Due to their economic, political and cultural engagement, the Despics played an important role in social life of Sarajevo. As a remnant of this family, in Sarajevo remained their house and objects of its household which are kept in the City Museum of Sarajevo. Despic house today is an annex to a building of the City Museum od Sarajevo, but has been, to a great extent, ruined and dilapidated, and has been almost twenty years closed for public. Heritage of this family encompasses a series of different objects of household furniture, dishes, ornaments, icons, pictures, photographs, genealogies, and clothing. Ethnographic collection and collection covering Austo-Hungarian period combine 332 objects and 279 photographs of Despic family, so that this material, as to its number and cultural value, is of great importance, not only for study of culture of housing (dwelling), but also for scrutiny of upper bourgeois layer of Sarajevo society. Therefore, this collection should be considered at the same time as an evidence of a bourgeois life in the course of past century, a record of tastes and ambitions, a cluster of style characteristics, and a remant of a vanished atmosphere and society.

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