In June 1998 a series of meetings were held to design the project. Community residents, artists, anthropologists, and activists participated. Over the course of several months, a paid team of residents led by youth interviewed over one third of the total number of families in the neighborhood to collect objects loaded with personal memories for display in a temporary "Museo arqueologico del Barrio Antioquia"

A year later the museum was created by Lacy, Riano, architect Vicky Rameriz, designer Raul Cabra, and local artisans, converting a bus interior into row upon row of lit aluminum and glass shelves. On these shelves were displayed personal artifacts, ranging from Donald Duck figurines, American dollar bills, gold plated silverware from a former drug dealer, wedding pictures, to photographs, even clothes, of youth family members killed in neighborhood shoot-outs. In a sound track residents remembered the long history of the Barrio.

For ten days, the bus was stationed throughout different quarters of the Barrio to ensure that all could see it safely without having to cross into hostile areas. Three hundred people a day visited; it was subject of national television programs when it moved for a week to downtown Medellin, at residents request, so it could represent their community in a more positive light.