The Davao Museum introduces visitors to the rich cultural heritage of diverse ethnic groups and tribes that inhabited the territory of present-Davao city in different historical periods. The Museum is located 12 km from the city centre on Avenue of Magellan, near Davao international airport. Once in the Museum building housed the courtroom, and later a warehouse, and in 2008 Nanya Soling Duterte, one of the most influential women of the city and the grandmother of Davao city mayor Sara Duterte, had ensured that the building was given to the repository of the heritage of the city.

The first thing you see visitors to the Museum - a chronological tree of the historical events that occurred on the territory of Davao city and its environs. It begins with the earliest archaeological finds and the first aboriginal settlements until the present day. On two floors of the Museum located household items, tools and Handicrafts numerous local tribes – mandailles, b Laan, tiboli, manobo, mansaka, control over forest resources, etc. Just ten tribes, five of them are Muslim, and five pagan. Here you can see traditional costumes, pottery, ancient jugs "martaban", vases and other objects of everyday life, as well as some jewelry. A small exhibition devoted to the Date bago – the leader of one of the tribes that revolted against the Spanish colonizers. And located next to a wax figure of President Manuel Quezon, signed the decree about creation of Davao city in 1936. An important part of the collections of the Museum are exhibits on World war II – even here you can see the rusty American bomb.

On the second floor of the Museum in the huge gallery of artwork includes paintings, pottery, sculpture, carved ornaments, musical instruments, whose age dates back one thousand years. In the Davao Museum also has a collection of archaeological artifacts found not only within the city but also in other parts of Mindanao. Here, on the second floor, is the so-called Hall of the World – a library and conference room, covered with photos from international conferences and seminars.

Near the Museum there is a souvenir shop where you can buy Handicrafts made by local aborigines, or robe, woven by the women of the tribe tiboli of Abaca. Such Souvenirs are usually embroider drawings depicting traditional religious beliefs of the tribe, its myths and legends.