[1] The museum was originally founded in 1892 and was re-established in the aftermath of World War II in Yugoslavia in 1948 by the Subotica Municipal Assembly.

The palace housing the City Museum was built by Dr. Mikša Demeter according to a design by the Vago brothers from Budapest.

The art collection houses an important selection of works by artists associated with Subotica.

[2] It features a distinguished gallery of Hungarian artists from Vojvodina (1830–1930), alongside works by prominent South Slavic artists such as Nikola Aleksić, Stjepan Baković, Milan Konjović, Novak Radonić and Sava Šumanović.

[2] The natural history collection features geological, paleontological, mineralogical, petrological, zoological, and botanical specimens.