[1] The main museum was founded on 1 May 1814 by three people, Professor Faustin Ens, Franz Mückusch von Buchberg and the mayor of Opava Johann Joseph Schößler.

At the end of the war this museum's collections gained artefacts from nearby buildings and the confiscated property of German people.

The museum is in charge of an arboretum, a large war memorial, a preserved fortification and a poet's birthplace.

[3] The complex, located in Hlučín, is a series of five different forfications that were designed to sit on the Czech border during the first half of the twentieth century.

[6] The Nový Dvůr Arboretum in Stěbořice is part of the museam and it includes 7,000 different species from five continents which are spread over 23 hectares.