The museum was founded in 1975. year and is part of the Open University Obrovac. It has seven collections through which seeks to foster a rich cultural and historical heritage and natural wealth of the area in which it operates. The ethnographic and natural history collection accessible to the public.
Permanent exhibition of ethnographic collections through display of folk costumes, textile processing threads and weaving, making and decorating and wooden musical instruments, inventory, fire houses and ceramic products combines the traditional way of life, a wider field of conditional obrovačkog hundred people-oriented strategy of livestock (sheep and goats) and agriculture . The collection includes clothing (traditional costumes), Inventory homes, useful household items, musical instruments, tools and utensils, looms, chests, tools and weapons that come from places Krusevo Zelengrad, Census of Population, Krupa, Jasenice, Muškovci and Žegar, and the resulting during the 19th and 20 century.