AVNOJ, the anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia coordinating resistance against the region's occupation during WWII, had its second meeting in Jajce in late November 1943. The banal 1930s brown-stone building in which they met became a museum in 1953 and was something of a 'pilgrimage' site in the Socialist era.
Inside the hall is set as though for a re-run of the meeting, with rows of wooden chairs facing a lecturn and a small stage set with a red-cloth table, Yugoslav flags and a large oversized golden statue of Tito, reputedly made of polystyrene. Apart from the portraits (Stalin, Marx, Churchill), most of the museum's original exhibits were plundered during the 1990s conflict. Since 2011 a new series of hangings has been installed to give background and context to the WWII situation in the different regions of Yugoslavia, but while professional, the English is confusingly elliptical. Outside there's a tiny narrow-guage steam loco.
