Franjevački Muzej Jajce

This museum (Franjevački Muzej Jajce) is housed in the Franciscan monastery of St. Luke, just outside the walled city (270 m northeast of the Banja Luka gate). Created in 1905, it is renowned for its centerpiece: the skeleton presented as that of the last king of Bosnia, Stefan Tomašević, executed by the Ottomans in Jajce in 1463. Displayed in a glass sarcophagus, these bones were discovered near the town in 1888. It's not specified, but it's not certain that it's the king's body. The age of the deceased (between 20 and 30 years old) and the fact that the head was found in a remote location are taken as evidence, since Stefan Tomašević was beheaded in his twenty-fifth year. The rest of the museum benefits from a sharper, more modern presentation with three beautiful rooms renovated in 2018. There are collections of sacred art, ethnology and archaeology. The latter houses one of the country's three Mošunj swords: forged some 3,500 years ago, it matches the one unearthed at Veliki Mošunj, near Vitez, and kept at the National Museum in Sarajevo. Also of note are bas-reliefs from Roman temples, as well as elements from the Church of St. Mary, including an Ottoman inscription dating from the period when the building was transformed into a mosque. As for the monastery, it is of little interest. Founded in 1877 and blown up by the Bosnian Serb army in 1992, it was rebuilt in 1999.