Historical Museum of Umm Al Quwain - is the main city museum, located in the fortress, which previously served as a patrol buildings and protected the entrance to the old town. On the one hand the old fort is limited to the sea, and on the other - the strait. Today the restored fort, but there still continues to lead the construction work on the restoration of the fortress wall.

The historical museum has a large collection of unique artifacts found during archaeological excavations in the village of Al-Dur. Excavations carried out to this day, so they can visit every tourist.

Historical Museum consists of several sections: archaeological exhibition; historical exposition; fortifications - walls and gates. The museum exposition is located on three levels. At the lowest level you can see the pottery of all periods of time, starting from the third millennium BC. The upper tier is calm and bedroom Sheikh, as well as apartments of the governor, who ruled during the rule of the United Kingdom. Visitors have the opportunity to see the personal belongings in the rooms sheikhs.

Of particular interest to visitors is the historic museum exhibition devoted to the date palm and dates. As well as an exhibition that demonstrates the traditional way of life of the Arabs, the local industrial and commercial traditions (writing the past, ancient barber tools, etc.).

Finally, guests are recommended to visit the room devoted to seamanship and navigation. Here you can see a fine collection of ancient ships and boats. Men will be interesting to see the weapons section, which holds ancient and modern weapons (swords, daggers), and women - a section which presents antiquities kitchen, where they can see a variety of kitchen utensils of the past, the description of the ways of cooking food using old primitive tools.