The museum is an anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.

In particular local heritage from Tinn and the Norwegian heavy water sabotage are given high priority.

Later this was supplemented by the United Federation of Trade Unions, Statkraft and Statnett, but the latter two have since left.

This phase of the establishing had a widespread goal, attempting to preserve both pre- and post-industrial heritage from Rjukan, including the establishment of Tinn Museum, a heritage village dedicated to the preindustrial society, in 1984.

[8] In 2007 the Norwegian Ministry of Culture announced they would give NOK 8 million for the expansion of the museum.