The Maritime and Historical Museum of the Croatian Littoral, founded in 1961, contains a maritime, cultural-historical, ethnographic and archaeological department, and the Museum’s headquarters is a historicist building, the former Governor’s Palace, which is a protected cultural monument.

The Governor’s Palace was built in 1896 according to the project of one of the leading Hungarian architects, Alajos Hauszmann, at the time when Rijeka was under Hungarian administration.
From the original equipment of the Governor’s Palace, a part of the structure has been preserved and presented in the salons on the first floor, including furniture and objects of artistic craft. The museum’s permanent exhibition in an interactive and contemporary way bears witness to the long, rich and stormy history and culture of living in the area of ​​today’s Primorje-Gorski Kotar County from prehistoric times to the present day.

The Museum also includes the Lipa Memorial Center dedicated to the suffering of the villagers of Lipa on April 30, 1944. In addition to the memorial heritage, the Memorial Center interprets the entire cultural-historical and ethnographic heritage of the Liburnian Karst (Rupa, Pasjak, Šapjane and Brce) from prehistoric times to the present day.

The Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral Rijeka has opened a Didactic Info Point, as part of the Claustra + project, which is partly adapted for blind and partially sighted people.