The initiative for the establishment of the Museum in Novi Pazar was launched at the meeting of the Committee for Education and Culture, held on Jun 27th, 1952, when the decision was taken for the Museum to be founded. In the beginning of 1953, a Coordination Board for the Establishment of the City Museum was formed, and the question of the museum was discussed at the meeting on February 26th, 1953. It was said that such an institution needed to be set up since the 'city was rich in historical remains', and the finances were made available.

As regards the acquisition of objects, the position was taken that 'all antiquities were to be collected – old vases, money, papers, and various objects'. At the extended session of the managing board of the City Museum, held on March 28th, 1953, it was confirmed that region boards had been formed for collecting museum pieces and that they held sessions.

In October 1959 for the part-time director of the Rascian Museum was named Ejup Mušović, a history teacher at the Teachers’ Secondary School.

On October 13th 1971, the Rascian Museum was registered with the District Commercial Court in Kragujevac; the problem of the building was solved as well. The Municipality Council of Novi Pazar decided that has to cede to the Museum the building of the former Polytechnic School, valued at 1 500 000 dinars, free of compensation. The building on No.5 Stefana Nemanje Street which the Museum has for its needs dates from the middle of the 19th century. For a while, it used to be a ‘ruzdia’ – a Turkish grammar school; on August 10th, 1959 it was nationalized from the owner, Alija Ćorović from Novi Pazar. Afterwards, it housed the City Board, then a primary school and the Polytechnic School. How the building did not suit to the Museum needs and also was ruined it was necessary to do adaptation. However, museum artifacts were immediately transferred into new premises.

Finally, twenty years after the museum collection was formed, the Hometown Museum in Novi Pazar was opened to visitors on November 28th 1973.

The Museum is housed in the building with the total floor area of 332 m2; too cramped for all exhibits that could be put in front of the eyes of visitors. The issue of proper premises was to be solved under the Program of Work of the Republic Board for the Study of Old Ras with the Sopoćani. With this program was anticipated to build new building of the Museum or eventually to adapt existed one what was not allowed by the economic and political situation in the country.

Soon after the official start of work problems with building started on which walls damp appeared which griped all walls of the ground floor. Problem was solved only in 2002 when horizontal incisions were made in the walls and damp proofing was installed.

The Museum received a number of awards for its work such as: the Merit Award from the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments from Kraljevo (1975); Friendship Award from the Primary School 'Ivo Lola Ribar' of Vojvodina (1975); the November Diploma from MC of Novi Pazar for Outstanding Achievement (1981); the Merit Award from the Primary School 'Stanika Radovanović-Cana' (1981); the Merit Award from Serbian Archeological Society, on the occasion of 100 years of its existence and work (1983), the Merit Award from the National Museum in Belgrade (1984); the Charter from MC Novi Pazar on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the town (1984); the Plaque from the Republic SUBNOR (1988).

In its fifty-five years work, the Museum Ras made remarkable achievements. It acquired over 6 000 artifacts, the most of them elaborated skillfully and arranged them in collections. However, in the Museum are not placed exhibits from archeological finds: the Peter’s Church (the National Museum in Belgrade), Djurdjevi Stupovi (the National Museum in Belgrade), the Sopoćani (the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments), Naprelja (the National Museum in Kragujevac), the locality Ras-Postenje (the Centre for Archeological Research of the Philosophy Faculty in Belgrade), as well as from localities treated by the sonde (mostly at Archeological Institute in Belgrade). The acquisition of new exhibits conditioned in complete or partial changes in the permanent exhibition of the Museum.

The Hometown Museum was also the organizer of the research conferences: the Symposium about the Ras and the Monuments in the Raška Valley (1977), the Conference of Museum Workers of Serbia, the XV Annual Conference of Ethnological Societies of Yugoslavia, the Congress of Conservers of Yugoslavia (part), three Annual Conferences of the Serbian Archeological Society (1978, 1988 and 2003) and the Meeting of the Section for Medieval Archeology of Serbian Archeological Society (1988). On occasion of the tenth anniversary of the death of the long-time director of the Museum, at the end of March 2006, a scientific conference was organized called: 'Historical Overview of the Area where was born and worked Ejup Mušovic'. Most eminent names in social sciences took part in the conference, and the whole issue 29 of the 'Novopazarski Zbornik' was dedicated to it. In a shape of the gathering was organized a large exhibition of paintings and graphics by the academic painter from Novi Pazar M.A. Mehmed Slezović.

The most important action of the Museum on the plan of publishing activities is edition of 'Novopazarski zbornik.' First issue of this almanac came out in 1977 and all its 1000 copies were sold out soon. Finally with 2007 from the press came out 30 issues of Zbornik that is highly respected in scientific circles and stirred lot of interests not only in our country but abroad as well.