Founded in 2016, the museum featured the archaeology and history of the area, collected by its founders and by local community members.

The museum was founded in 2016 in Al Qarara, a village close to Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, by six people, including museum director Mohamed Abu Lahia and his wife Najla Abu Lahia.

[1][2] The Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities granted the museum, housed in a former grain silo, a private licence.

[1][2] The museum was designed to educate people about Palestinian cultural heritage, to strengthen their sense of identity.

[2] Key objects included Byzantine mosaics, swords dating to the Crusader period, thobes, as well as jewellery worn by women prior to the Nakba.