Tenri City opened the museum in a park located on the eastern bank of a pond which is considered to have been the surrounding moat of Kurozuka Tumulus, in order to keep and display the archaeological materials found.
これらの考古学資料を保管・展示するために天理市により黒塚古墳の周濠だったと考えられる池の東畔の公園内に開設された施設である。