Homeland War Museum

About this audio guide

This guide to the Homeland War Museum in Dubrovnik centers on a single morning, December 6th 1991, when artillery and tanks closing from two directions targeted Fort Imperial, the hilltop position above you, while fifty thousand people sat trapped inside the walled city below. It follows the small unit holding the fort with little more than rifles and hand grenades, and the stakes if that one position, the last unencircled foothold Croatian forces had, gave way. The guide moves through photographs, weapons and video testimony from people who lived through that day, including its youngest defender. Stand among the exhibits and take in what a handful of men, with no artillery to answer with, were trying to hold.