The small Local History Museum contains various artifacts from the regions early colonial history. It includes clothing and uniforms together with traditional Zulu dress from the era. There's a small but fascinating display of model ships representing sailing ships from the 1800's. Reconstructions of the first European dwelling in Durban and a Victorian chemistry can also be viewed. An interactive touch-screen computer display features 59 personalities from artists to generals to Zulu kings, a sample of KwaZulu-Natal’s leading historical personalities.

The Museum also has a very informative collection on Mohandas Ghandi consisting of artifacts (mostly photographs) and documents (including letters written by him). Ghandi lived in South Africa for 21 years. His ideology of peaceful protest and public disobedience, which would later be used to gain India's independence from Britain, was born from discrimination he was subjected to while living in South Africa. The collection is mostly exhibited in its main facility in the old courthouse.