The museum was established in October 2018 in the historic Waterworks "Black" Tower building. It is primarily dedicated to Josef Tomáš Škoda, M.D., an eminent physician who was born in the Water Tower and whose birth room houses an exhibit dedicated to him.

Exhibition of ethnographic, historical and natural history collections. Collections of antiquities, architecture and urban development are on display.

The first written report dates back to 1177. Provision of Czech POINT services. There is a church of St. James, a church of St. John of Nepomuk or an archdeaconry with a sundial.

Among the latest exhibitions is the Nepomuk Cabinet in the attic. The multi-functional visitor cabinet presents the town from several new attractive perspectives. The museum features an exhibit of the defunct Pomuk Cistercian monastery, Green Mountain Castle, Country Household, and Liberator B-24.

Exposition on the life and work of the poet Josef Václav Sladek. Organisation of short-term exhibitions.