[1] The museum was established to conserve archaeological artifacts such as the Acheulean axe, which was found in an excavation in the Hantangang River in Yeoncheon County.

[2] The construction of the museum cost 48.2 million won, financed by the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation.

[3] The museum was designed by X-tu's French architects, Anouk Legendre and Nicolas Desmazieres.

[6] The museum contains one of the earliest axes in East Asia, as well as several relics dating back to the Stone Age.

[8] The museum contains a 5,000-year-old mummy, as well as fossils of Ice Age animals such as cave bears, primitive horses, saber-toothed tigers and mammoths.