Its traditional mudbrick structure is of great historical importance, since it exhibits the style and architecture prevailing at the period.

The courtyards house other historical items, such as the cupola saved from the ruins of the original Mahdi's tomb and also the first car in Sudan, an Arrol-Johnston motor tractor.

[5] The collections were photographed and digitised, and this data was shared with another British Council Cultural Protection Funded project, Sudan Memory.

This project is a British-Sudanese cooperation with the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM) of Sudan.

[6] Reports in September 2024 suggested that the museum had been looted in the context of the Sudanese civil war.