It houses approximately 35,000 inventarized objects, making it the most important museum of Sorbian culture and history.

The closure of the Serbski dom by the Nazi government in 1937 put an end to the first Sorbian Museum.

[2] In the German Democratic Republic (GDR), a museum of Sorbian history and ethnology was founded in 1957 in Hoyerswerda.

Since 1835 it was the seat of the Royal Saxon Court of Appeals, the highest judicial institution in Lusatia.

During the time of Nazi Germany, it hosted the Gestapo,[4][5] and it later became a residential building in the German Democratic Republic.