The museum building was built in 1924, but it began to be used in 1925 to settle common law cases.

[1] The intention with creating this building was to centralize the cases in a customary system of justice in the Colony of Kenya.

The museum also contains a passbook used by the British to control the movement of different groups of peoples such as the Kikuyu, Meru and Embu.

[9] The museum has a collection of portraits of Tom Mboya and Pio Gama Pinto, as well as exhibits on the role of women in Kenyan history.

[11] The museum contains helmets and shields from Kenya's colonial period, as well as bricks made by the Aguthi Works Camp detainees.