Regional Museum of Travnik (Zavičajni muzej Travnik), Mehmed-paše Kukavice 1
(44° 13′ 32.4 “N, 17° 39′ 59.6 E)
Figure 1. The old sundial at the Haji Ali Bey mosque in Travnik from 1865 (see: https://yusundials.com/travnik-1866/). The sundial was restored in 2018 (picture below, right), but this did not stop its deterioration. That is why the Regional Museum of Travnik decided to do an ideal reconstruction.Figure 2. A drawing of a gnomonic grid with basic dimensions transferred to a marble slab with dimensions of 77 x 101 x 3 cm.Figure 3. Picture 3. Academic sculptor Stijepo Gavrić at work: carving the gnomon grid, painting, placing a spike (orthognomon) that casts a shadow and finishing the marble slab.Figure 4. Marble slab after engraving the gnomonic grid, after coloring the contents with old gold color, and completed after placing the orthognomon (d = 12.5 cm).Figure 5. The ideal reconstruction of the Travnik sundial has been temporarily placed within the permanent exhibition dedicated to the development of Travnik during the Ottoman period. Below it is the original tarih that once stood above the entrance to the Mehmed-pasha Kukavica Mosque (1757/58), which, after the fire of 1856, was restored by Hadži Ali-bey Hasanpašić (1865/66).Figure 6. Travnik Homeland Museum, 18 November 2025, “International Day of Islamic Art”: a group portrait taken after the successful completion of the project – Fatima Maslić, Director of the Travnik Homeland Museum; Stijepo Gavrić (left), academic sculptor; and Prof. Dr. Milutin Tadić.
