[2] The museum is named after the Danish island Fur on which it is located.

When the museum was founded in 1954, the focus was on the local history of the island.

The Museum is located in the village of Nederby, not far from the ferry port, in the south of the island named Fur, Denmark.

The museum has a large and diverse collection of early Eocene (55 million years old) fossils collected locally on the island in the "moler" landscape - the Danish name for the Fur Formation - and the underlying Stolle Klint Clay.

The collection includes fossils of insects,[4] birds, fishes,[5] reptails, and land plants.