Mostar Cultural Center

The Center began its activities on May 15, 1994, in one of the business premises of a residential building in Šemovac. With the arrival of the European Administration of Mostar (EUAM) in 1994, the Department of Education, Culture and Sports of the EUAM was presented with the Center's program and a proposal to adapt and transform the war-destroyed Home for Unaccompanied Children at Rade Bitange 13 into a Cultural Center. Understanding the program and the goals that were to be achieved (helping children, youth and citizens to alleviate or overcome war traumas more quickly and easily through educational, cultural and entertainment programs), EUAM facilitated the reconstruction of part of the Cultural Center building, which was opened on January 26, 1996.

The Center developed, in parallel, three programs: educational, cultural-educational and psychosocial. Everyone who wanted to, especially young people, had the opportunity to attend the Center: a computer school, a foreign language school, a journalism, music, art and theater workshop, to work in a well-equipped photo laboratory, to attend a dance school, a modeling school, and occasional short guitar, chess and synthesizer schools. Then, they had at their disposal: a fitness club, a game library, a dance school for all ages, and a Bosnian language school for foreigners.