In 1992, the Association of Museums of Slovenia granted the museum its highest recognition, the VALVASOR PRIZE.





In 1993, the museum ranked among the finalists for the EUROPEAN MUSEUM OF THE YEAR award



In Strasbourg, the museum received the COUNCIL OF EUROPE MUSEUM AWARD FOR 1993.




...In the course of my professional carrier I visited many hundreds of museums, among them museums of war. Kobarid is the first one where I could not find the slightest trace of chauvinism, bias, of glorification. Its display is deeply touching. it takes its visitors by their hearts and souls and conveys a message which cannot be disseminated too often and too loud: war is insanity, crime, it only generates victims.

Friedrich Waidacher, representing The European Museum of the Year Award Comitee in the Council of Europe Museum Prize 1993 awarding ceremony in Strasbourg, May 11, 1993