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| Founder(s) | Adil Zulfikarpašić |
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| Established | 1988 (in Switzerland) 2001 (in Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
| President | Prof. Dr. Faris Gavrankapetanović |
| Staff | 18 |
| Key people | Fehim Škaljić |
| Address | Mula Mustafe Bašeskije 21, Sarajevo 71000 |
| Location | Sarajevo , , Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Website | bosnjackiinstitut |
The Bosniak Institute is an institution of culture and scholarship in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has a museum and a gallery, a cultural centre and a library, a publishing house and a cultural centre. The institute is the result of its founder, Adil Zulfikarpašić, a donor (waqf), businessman, politician and promotor of cultural and educational life in Bosnia and Herzegovina. With his wife Tatjana Zulfikarpašić, he collected and preserved cultural heritage and contemporary production about Bosnia and Herzegovina, ranging from documents, photographs, postcards, maps, to books, encyclopaedias, journals, and other archival and library materials. The Bosniak Institute was founded in Zurich in 1988, and after the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina the entire stock was moved to Sarajevo, and opened in 2001.
The Bosniak Institute includes a library, archive, art collection, galleries, reading rooms and researcher and scholar study rooms, conference rooms, and other amenities.