The ehibits also include the ethnographic farmstead of a maritime fisherman, anchors, sea fauna and flora. Visitors can observe freshwater fish found in Lithuania, fish from the Baltic Sea and of the tropical seas in the aguariums, as well as sea mammals and sea-birds in the pools. The museum was founded in 1966 and was a branch of the Klaipeda Museum of ethnography until 1988. Its exibitions include a fisherman s ethnographic homestead, weather-vanes, tombstones typical of this region, and other exibits reflecting the history of fishing traditions in Kursiu Nerija. Founded in 1991, the museum displays exibits relating to the local history of area and its crafting.
Numismatic collection is also on view.
The museum has been open to the public since 1979. Its collection includes samples over 1000 plants spacies and 20.000 stones bolders from the Baltic Sea region abundant in the North, East, West and central Lithuania. The museum has also been collecting cross-sections of trees growing in Lithuania. Its collections consist of archaeological finds, numismatics, collections of 17th -19th century applied art and paintings, folk sculpture, athnographic and historic domestic life exibits. Exibitions devoted to estate culture, archeology, the history of the town, and exibitions of old folk art are on display.