The Despića Kuća is one of the oldest surviving residential buildings in central Sarajevo, though you'd never guess so from the ho-hum facade. Inside, however, it's a house within a house, the original 1780 section retaining even the prison-style bars on stone window frames.
Wrapped around the three oldest rooms are several much later additions filled with late-19th- and early-20th-century fittings. One of these, the mural-ceilinged 'Velika Soba' sitting room, hosted what is thought to be some of Sarajevo's first local theatre productions. The house belonged to an Orthodox Christian merchant family whose scion, Makso Despić, left a curious will in 1921. It's displayed on the front inner wall – sarcastic item 11 is especially humorous.
