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The museum on the island of Groix, which opened in 1984, traces, according to the principles of a museum, the history of the island of Groix and its inhabitants.
The museum is located in a building overlooking Port Tudy, on the premises of a former cannery.
Sylvie San Quirce is the curator since 1989.

The permanent exhibition is organized by theme:
• The natural environment explains the genesis of the peculiar geological Groix
• Archaeology exhibits prehistoric tools, and falls to Viking boat grave of Iron Age
• The habitat
• Origins traces the history of the island
• Agriculture exposes many agricultural implements
• Fishing: Fishing has played an important role in the island particularly the tuna fishery from 1850 to 1940. The museum has two boats, fishing equipment and shipbuilding and many photos.
• The Rescue: rescue stories, craft and equipment
• Social life: description of the company groisillone nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Among the most remarkable pieces there is an old lifeboat from 1950 and the reproduction across the hull of a boat chartered for the tuna.

The museum holds workshops for children and adults as well as fishing trips on board a traditional fishing boat