Franciscan monastery Humac–Ljubuški is home to the archaeological collection popularly known as Humac Museum. It was founded in 1884, four years before the National Museum in Sarajevo. The collection contains a large number of exhibits from Herzegovina, from the Neolithic period to the Middle Ages, in a variety of materials: stone, bronze, copper, iron, silver, gold, ceramics, glass and wood. The area of Ljubuški in Herzegovina abounds mostly in remains of Roman culture. Among other things, 74 stone inscriptions were discovered, most of which are military tombstones. They were sometimes commissioned from famous workshops in Tilurium (today’s Trilj) and Narona (Vid near Metković). The museum collection of the Franciscan monastery in Humac accommodates the Humac Plate, one of the oldest and most important Cyrillic monuments in BiH. The inscription tells us about the construction of the church of St. Michael the Archangel, whose remains have not yet been found. It was written by a poorly literate stonemason, applying a spiral way of writing.
As part of the Franciscan monastery in Humac, an art collection called “Mother” was opened, containing around 250 works of art. About forty sculptors and twenty painters from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are represented, two sculptors from Slovenia, a Russian painter Alexander Zvjagin, and several sculptors and painters from Congo. Ivan Meštrović, Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić and Zlatko Prica are the most famous Croatian sculptors whose artworks can be found in the collection.
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