The museum is housed in the spaces of the Frýdek Castle in Frýdek-Místek. It includes a collection of natural science objects dealing with botany, mycology, zoology and geology from the regions of the Moravian-Silesian Beskydy and the Beskydy foothills. It also documents in detail the development and status of the wilderness, societies and human labor, the historical, cultural and social development of the Frýdek-Místek district.