The Museum was born of selfless action of local patriots - Lęborskie land lovers. Housed in a historic building from the early twentieth century. This building was erected at the family home of Paul Nipkow, one of the most famous lęborczan, called the father of television - the inventor of the camera used to transmit the image at a distance (so-called Nipkow disk). The Museum is an institution of historical and archaeological profile exposing their collections on three floors. Since the late nineteenth century, they collect memorabilia associated with the history of the region, its sights and people in the collection: ashtrays facial Pomeranian culture, rzabytki crafts, furniture, Gdansk, militaria, medals, coins from treasure coins from the fifteenth century, contemporary art gallery. On the third floor in the office is an exhibition dedicated to the inventor of the image transmission at a distance. The current technique of transferring the image distance is the result of work of many teams of scientists, but the pioneer of this technique was Paul Nipkow. It Sonstruował device called Nipkow disk or drive. The two rotating discs with holes made at the same time along a spiral line, a light source and photocell, which was part of the photosensitive selenium - is the beginning of "mechanical" television. Lived to see the invention of the patent in 1884.
Some souvenirs muzum was exhibited in the corridors of the new town hall, and in 1925 arranged in the building of a permanent exhibition of the county. At first the museum was a social and conducted free of charge by local community workers. In 1945 part of the collection was dispersed. The rest gathered in a house standing in the eastern side of the square (Street Młynarska 14-15), where the museum is housed today.