The ICTY information centre was opened at Sarajevo’s historic city hall by Mayor Abdulah Skaka and former ICTY judge Fausto Pocar.
The ICTY legacy is now in your hands, Pocar said.
The Sarajevo centre will have 400,000 documents at its disposal, including 100,000 exhibits found in mass graves and approximately 3,000 video recordings from crime scenes.
Similar centres will be opened in Srebrenica, as well as in Serbia and Croatia.
The centre in Sarajevo was opened at the time of a visit by Serge Brammertz, the Chief Prosecutor of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) and the last ICTY Chief Prosecutor.
The ICTY closed last year after having indicted a total of 161 people, 88 of whom were convicted of war crimes.
Eighteen were acquitted, while 37 indictments were dropped due to the death of the accused or other reasons, and 13 cases were referred to national courts in the former Yugoslavia.
The remaining work of the court, including appeals in the cases of Bosnian Serb political and military leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, is being completed by the MICT.