Historical exhibits include decorated rooms, where visitors can look through windows and doors of what could have been homes and businesses[6] in late 1800s to early 1900s.

[11] Native American artifacts, including baskets from the local Wiyot,[9] Yurok, Karuk and Hupa, are exhibited along with interpretive information.

Other artifacts include a woman's buckskin headband, hair ties used by a shaman, a smoking pipe, wrapping skin, and a gambling drum.

[7] Artwork exhibited include paintings from the 1860s by portrait painter Stephen William Shaw[1] and photographs by Edna Garrett.

[12] In 2007, artists collective Empire Squared of Eureka, California donated labor to paint a mural featuring local history and scenery on the Shaw Street side of the museum.

Each has a pendulum which can pivot, restrained by a flexible wire and have a recording needle which traces on smoked paper, controlled by a weight-powered timepiece.

[19] With daily observations, Bognuda solved an old puzzle about constantly wiggling traces, by correlating vibrations recorded at FER station to heavy surf on the nearby coast,[20] an effect now called wave-generated microseism.

It has over 46 hammers, two anvils, tongs, rasp, wire brushes, chisels, gloves, aprons, a coal and/or coke fired forge, bellows, and numerous other tools of the trade.