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March 5, 2022
Church of Our Lady of Health and Museum and Gallery of Neum
The Church of Our Lady of Health is a Catholic parish church in Neum, the construction of which began in 1983. Next to the parish church is the parish house and in front of the church is the fountain of Our Lady of Health, which was built in 2004. The last works on the church were completed only in 2019. Museum and Gallery of Neum established in 2007 is housed inside the Church (Crkva Gospe od zdravlja). It has archaeological and ethnographic exhibitions, Illyrian and Greek helmets, fibulae, and decorative ceramics from the 5th century BC found at Vidica guvno site as the most significant ones. The gallery has over 400 art works made in different techniques by artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. Most of the works are paintings made during the Art Colony, an event held in Neum each year for the past decade.