The museum, opened in Juche 45 (1956), houses many relics and data showing the Korean people's creative wisdom and talent in seven rooms. The exhibits ranging from the Neolithic era to the end of the 19th century are indicative of the Korean people's production relations, customs, family rites, etiquette and folk games.

They include horn hoe, wooden plow, iron sickle and axe and other farming tools made some 8,000 years ago and crops like rice, foxtail, kaoliang, bean and millet, cultivated in the country some 6,000 years ago.

Also on show are traditional kitchen utensils and tableware, and dresses of men and women, rod-like hairpin, finger ring and other ornaments used from the period of Koguryo Kingdom (B.C. 277-A.D. 668) to the period of Ri Dynasty (1392-1910).

The exhibited data show the invention and development of ondol (underfloor heating), furnishing, education of children and customs of wedding and memorial services.

The lighting implement relics exhibition is going on at the museum.