This exhibition has been produced by Dubrovnik Museums, the Museum of Contemporary History.
The exhibition presents the fruits of several years of gathering of authentic material and documentation about the Homeland War in the Dubrovnik area, and comprises a well-worked-out and supplemented thematic unit of the permanent exhibition “Dubrovnik in the Homeland War 1991-1992” in Fort Imperial on Srđ.
The freeing of the Dubrovnik area and the Croatian Army liberating operation in the southern theatre of war is an outstanding example of communality among the Croatian people in the struggle for liberty and independence. During the six months of heavy fighting with the aggressor in this war zone, numerous units from all regions of Croatia took part, over 250 of their members laying down their lives, with over a thousand wounded, some very gravely, some less so.
When the operation to liberate the south of Croatia, covering an area of more than 1,200 square kilometres of temporarily occupied Dubrovnik land, was successfully concluded, 20,000 displaced persons were able to return to their long-since abandoned, looted and ruined homes.
Exhibition devised by Varina Jurica Turk and Mišo Đuraš.