[3] The main building was designed by engineer Ole Aarnseth and built in 1903.

The museum building has been preserved by the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage.

The museum houses an interactive dry fish aquarium exhibition from the mid 1950s, which has also been persevered by the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage.

[4][5] On the first floor the museum has two exhibits: one about the Lofoten fisheries and the international stockfish trade with the Hanseatic League, and a second covering the local Sami people.

Most of the Sami material on display is from Tysfjord Municipality, north of Bodø.