The museum was formerly known as the Cultural Relics Room of Wuyishan Cultural Center. 1992, a museum was built in the former site of the original temple in Wuyishan city. /kloc-0 officially opened in February, 1993. At the same time, the cultural relics room was abolished and the cultural relics managed by it were handed over to the museum. The museum has a total investment of 6.5438+0.4 million yuan, covering an area of 2,400 square meters and a construction area of 6.5438+0.5 million square meters. It is an antique building with five-story reinforced concrete structure, with six exhibition rooms and cultural relics library and other supporting facilities. There are more than 600 cultural relics from the late Neolithic period to the late Qing Dynasty, including 525 cultural relics identified by experts from the Cultural Relics Identification Group of Fujian Provincial Department of Culture and 6 national second-class cultural relics. 474 third-class cultural relics. 1996, in order to expand publicity and let more Chinese and foreign tourists know about Wuyishan, the museum was moved to its current site and officially opened to the public in May 1996. The original building was handed over to Wuyishan Library.

From June 1998 to1October 165438 to March 1999, the museum was completely renovated and revised, and advanced exhibition means and preventive and protective measures were adopted. On the photo wall at the entrance of the museum is the name of Wuyishan Museum inscribed by Zhao Puchu, the late vice chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. The couplets on both sides of the gate are taken from the poem "Ancient culture of China, Mount Tai and Wuyi" written by Cai Shangsi, a famous contemporary historian and professor of Fudan University.