Originally located in Skagen's Østerby, in 1938 it was moved to its current site on Svallerbakken in the dunes bordering Vesterby.
In 2009 it became associated with the region's other cultural heritage museums under the heading Nordjyllands Kystmuseum and re-named Kystmuseet Skagen.
[2] The museum consists of a number of old houses showing how fishermen and other local inhabitants lived in times gone by.
The country residences of the rich and the huts of poor fishermen are among the exhibits.
Indoors, there are displays of nautical artifacts, old photographs and paintings covering various periods in the history of Skagen up to the present day.