Established as District Museum, it turned into Town Museum in 1985 under the administration of the County Museum Complex. The heritage has been created through researches and collecting conducted in the Carei. A monument of architecture, Karoly Castle was built between 1892 and 1894. At present it is under restoration zone. The exhibits include tools, weapons, painted pottery, a double inhumation tomb of the Otomani, pieces of palaeontology, malacology and ornithology from the Carei area.