After the decision to establish a museum, in parallel, an announcement is made among the population and antiquities are collected voluntarily from the residents.

In parallel with the collection of exhibits, restoration works were carried out in the Yukhari Govhar Agha Mosque, and the opening of the museum is being carried out within the framework of the events planned to be held in Shusha in connection with the jubilee of Molla Panah Vagif in June 1968.

Here there were interesting stands and exhibits about well-known Azerbaijani intellectuals, educators, singers, musicologists and writers who were born and lived in the city of Shusha.

Later, the funds allocated by the Ministry of Culture, as well as the number of exhibits voluntarily presented to the museum by the population increased to 5,500.

The museum exhibited the paintings of the Russian artist Vasily Vereshchagin while he was in Shusha in 1864, and an unexploded 43-kilogram shell during the attack of Agha Muhammad Shah Qajar.