It focuses on the history of Parrsboro Shore communities along the Minas Channel of the Bay of Fundy with an emphasis on the area's shipbuilding and lumbering heritage.

The Museum consists of a number of historic buildings moved to a central site on the banks of a scenic ravine beside the tidal Greville River.

Later that same year the committee took on the task of clearing and cleaning the site and erected an information building.

In 1992 the McLeod family donated a building, formerly the Cochrane Hall and originally a Methodist church built in 1854.

Items in the collections number over 2,000 with everything from period fashion, to hand tool, models and equipment as well as numerous photographs and archives.