At first it was a thematic museum, "The Peasant Uprising of 1907", and, in 1987, it was reorganized as History Town Museum. The museum building dates from 1927 as a bank building, and then a private dwelling until 1965 when in was transformed in a museum.. The exhibits include archaeological finds from the Neolithic, weapons and pottery of Dridu and Albeşti; coins, ethnography and urban history, historic and art archives. The permanent exhibition displays an urban ethnology hall, and collections of ethnography and archaeology. The museum owns goods listed in the National Cultural Heritage Treasure.