The museum was formally established on the 30 June 2015 by a Croatian Government Decree and was first opened in 2015.

[3] In 2022 museum was the winner of the prestigious European "Destination of Sustainable Cultural Tourism" award[5] The Vučedol archaeological site is located on the right bank of the Danube River, four kilometres downriver from the city of Vukovar, at the spot where an intermittent watercourse in a loess Vukovar Plateau has cut a 25 metre high narrow steep valley that runs to the Danube river.

Artificially separated from the pass, a little plateau known as Gradac, which through archeological excavations was confirmed as being the metallurgical and cultural centre of the site.

It was a turbulent time of the immigration of the first Indo-Europeans and their relationship with the natives, the blending of material cultures and religions.

Each of the aforementioned settlements had its own characteristics, however the most detailed one able to be reconstructed is the Vučedol one, which also gave its name to this site.