The Regional Museum of Visoko was founded on April 7, 1953 by the decision of the Municipality Council of Visoko. The museum building was built in 1902 in a softened neo-Moorish style and originally had the function of a city hall – belediye. The first curator of the Museum was Anton Smodič. In 1957, the Museum got its own space and its first permanent exhibition, which covered the period from the Neolithic to the end of WWII with an emphasis on the National Liberation War (WWII), consisting of the following collections: archaeology, city history, ethnography, the National Liberation War period and the socialist construction of the region. The Museum Building is otherwise categorized as a monument of the first category of cultural and historical heritage in the Visoko area.

The Museum’s Oriental collection of documents holds the original written material created at the end of the period of Ottoman and early Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as during the Austro-Hungarian period and the time between the two world wars. A small part of the collection, which consists of manuscripts and printed material in Arabic, has been cataloged in a published article. All cataloged documents, with the exception of one work, are of a religious nature, in the field of basic sources of the Islamic religious law – the Qur'an and Hadith, or Hadith science and Islamic literature. Some of the manuscripts were transferred from the municipal archives after the museum was founded (defters, sijils), and some were acquired from private collections by gift and purchase.