The museum displays archaeological finds from the area around the city, as well as from rescue excavations carried out in the course of the Southeastern Anatolia Project.

Since 2008, they have been participating in the Research Centre for Asia Minor [de] in collaboration with Margherita Facella of Pisa and Charles Crowther of Oxford in order to record and process the inscriptions stored in the museum.

Part of the ground floor contains administrative offices, the rest consists of two exhibition halls and a linking room.

Among the items on display are Palaeolithic tools, Neolithic arrowheads, pottery from the Copper Age, spearpoints, cooking utensils and jewellery from the Bronze and Iron Ages, as well as items from the Hellenistic and Roman periods, such as statues, mosaics and vessels of stone, ceramics and glass.

Donald H. Sanders, the editor of the excavation reports of Nemrut Dag, states that 37 crates with fragments of sculptures and inscriptions from that site are kept in the basement of the museum.