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Visoko Local Museum

22 m to the city center

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Description

The Visoko Local Museum is housed in one of the most beautiful buildings in the city — an elegant Neo-Moorish structure from 1902, built during the Austro-Hungarian period as the city hall, and today a proud guardian of Visoko's thousand-year heritage. Founded in 1953, the museum preserves nine collections across 366 square meters that together tell the story of this region from prehistory to the modern era — numismatic, archaeological, medieval, ethnographic, geological-paleontological, art, and National Liberation War collections, along with a photo archive and a rich library.

Stone fragments from the site of the Old Royal Town and the surrounding archaeological sites add a special charm, and the museum organizes themed exhibitions every year while actively preserving the tradition of Visoko's old crafts. A must-stop for history lovers.

Founded: 1953; founder: City of Visoko
Collections: 8 permanent collections + archive, photo archive, library

Museum building and collections

The building housing the museum is itself a historical exhibit. The former city municipality — Beledija — was built in 1902 in the Neo-Moorish style with characteristic pseudo-Moorish decorative elements, and today it is a first-category cultural and historical heritage site of Visoko.

U toj zgradi, u podrumlju s lapidarijumom, prizemlju i tavanskom prostoru, smještene su zbirke koje prate čitav razvoj visočkog kraja — od prahistorijskih nalaza iz kotline, numizmatike s gotovo 1.100 komada, pa do orijentalne zbirke i arebice kao pisma Bošnjaka od 16. do 20. stoljeća. Nova stalna postavka, otvorena 15. maja 2026. i nagrađena u kategoriji interijera, donosi sve te slojeve u jedinstven izložbeni prostor.

What to see in the museum?

Numismatic Collection — about 1,100 items; Bosnian, Hungarian, Dubrovnik, Venetian and Turkish coins; coins bearing the coat of arms of King Stjepan Tomašević
Archaeological Collection — the largest in the museum; finds from prehistoric sites in the Visoko basin, including Okolište (5200 BC)
Medieval Collection — material from the period of the Bosnian Church and the Kotromanić dynasty
Oriental Collection — manuscripts and objects from the Ottoman period; Arebica as the thematic thread
Goduša Ethno Room — an annex in the village of Goduša; local crafts: pipe making, comb making, making flutes
Prehistoric settlement of Okolište — a separate entity on the portal; 6 km from Visoko; an ideal excursion alongside the museum