Davao Museum acquaints visitors with a rich cultural heritage of different ethnic groups and tribes that inhabited the present territory of Davao in different historical periods. The museum is located 12 km from the city center on the Avenue Magellan, near the Davao International Airport. Once at the museum housed the courtroom later - warehouse, and in 2008, Nanyang Soling Duterte, one of the most influential women of the city and grandmother Mayor Sara Duterte of Davao, has ensured that the building was given to the city's heritage repository.

The first thing visitors see the museum - a chronological tree historical events that took place on the territory of Davao and its environs .  It starts from the earliest archaeological finds and the first Aboriginal settlements to the present day .  On two floors of the museum settled household items, tools and crafts of many local tribes - Mandi b'laan, tiboli, Manobo, mansaka, bagobo etc. .  Total ten tribes, five of which are considered to be Muslim, and the other five - the pagan .  Here you can see traditional costumes, pottery, ancient jugs "Martaban", vases and other objects of daily life, as well as some jewelry .  A small display devoted Datu Bago - the leader of one of the tribes revolted against the Spanish colonizers .  And nearby is located a wax figure of President Manuel Quezon, signed a decree on the establishment of the city of Davao in 1936 .  An important part of the collections of the museum are exhibits on World War II - even here you can see a rusty American bomb . 

On the second floor of the museum into a huge gallery of art works are drawings, pottery, sculptures, carvings, musical instruments, whose age is dated not one thousand years. The museum Davao also collected archaeological artifacts that have been found not only in the city but also in other parts of Mindanao. Here, on the second floor, is the so-called Hall of the World - Library and conference room, hung with photographs of international conferences and seminars.

Next to the museum is a souvenir shop where you can buy handicrafts made by local natives, or clothes woven by women from the tribe tiboli abaca. On such products are usually embroidered paintings depicting traditional religious beliefs of the tribe, its myths and legends.