Archaeological excavation and architectural research over worked stone found in Stari Bar took place between March and June 2013.
Excavations took place inside the Powder Magazine, a building of Ottoman date (1704). This is almost i square at its base,, with walls 1,5 m thick. On the north and east sides of the walls are found two inscriptions in Arabic, which mention the year of its foundation. Originally it had a stone roof and a stone pavement. Under the the roof was an acoustic dome. Theriginal entrance was on the eastern side of the building, with two small corridors that lead to the main room, under the dome. A small trench (1×1 m) was filled with mixed material: the bottom there was material from the 13th century. This suggested that the space formed part of . the yard, of the Franciscan monastery of St. Nicholas of the 13th century, which was turned into Orta (Central) Mosque in 1595. In 1912 the building survived a great explosion of munitions.
The architectural research was carried out on a large and varied sample of worked stone, and resulted in opening of Lapidarium, in the Turkish Powder Magazine. But, in last 50 years this building served as storehouse, full of mixed stone with rubbish and munitions from the War 1878 and later.
These pieces are dated from the VIth to the XIXth century. The more than 650 pieces include by parts of mosaic paviments of the VI century, frescoes, parts of windows, capitals, columns, doors, gravestones, parts of vessels for holding olive oil, inscriptions (XIII – XV c.) etc.
The creation of the lapidarium was an attempt to show the rich history of the area through this material.

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