The City Museum of Local History, founded in 1960, is located in an inconspicuous two-story brick building in the center of Krivoy Rog, with a total area of ​​exhibition halls of 800 sq.m. The museum's funds include about 100 thousand exhibits: natural and archaeological collections, ethnographic materials, about 4000 works of fine and folk arts and crafts, incl. icons of the 16th-17th centuries, numismatics, photographs and documents on the history of Krivoy Rog in the 19th-20th centuries.
It is planned to build a new museum building on Metallurgov Avenue, which provides for an increase in the area of ​​exhibition halls, the creation of a modern storage and restoration workshops, a scientific library and a conference hall. In the village of Veseli Terny there is a branch of the museum, the expositions of which are dedicated to the history of the village. The video gallery of the local history museum is open in the base pavilion flower clock.