The museum building contains exhibits reflecting the history of the plant from 1736 to today. For example, in the lower part of the building there is a full-sized reconstruction of the copper mine - from the opening of this production Perm began as a city. The museum stores a sample of the welding machine, which was invented by the plant's mining chief Nikolai Slavyanov - this discovery was a major milestone in the development of industry. There are expositions dedicated to the participation of Motovilikha in revolutionary events, the industrial breakthrough of the 1930s, the feat of workers during the Great Patriotic War (for the Soviet Army, Motovilikha produced a quarter of all artillery systems), difficult years of conversion in the 1990s. Thus, the museum collection tells not only about the almost three-century history of Motovilikha factories, but also about the history of industry in Perm.

Open museum area today is one of the main attractions of Perm. It collected samples of military equipment, which the plant produced from the middle of the 19th century and up to the present day - cannons, systems of salvo fire, missile installations, ballistic missiles. Among the exhibits - the Permian "Tsar Cannon", cast at the factory in 1868. In contrast to the Moscow gun of the same name, 314 shots were fired from the Perm cannon. The significance of the "king-gun" confirms the awarding to it in 2010 of the status of a monument of science and technology. Also on the site are the legendary weapons of the times of the Great Patriotic War, for example the ML-20 cannon - from this in 1944 the first shot was made in Germany.