The museum is housed in the old Iloilo Provincial Jail building, also known as Iloilo Rehabilitation Center, which was built in 1911 and served as the provincial jail of the province until 2006.

[1] Its satellite office would be at the Old Jaro Municipal Hall which was given to the National Museum of the Philippines (NMP) in 2014[2] along with the jail building.

[3] The old prison building was converted into a museum by Lim Construction and Trading, a process which began in 2016.

[1] In February 2017, the NMP Western Visayas satellite office was established after the renovated Old Jaro Municipal Hall was inaugurated.

It houses artifacts from different parts of the Western Visayas region.