The indigenous people of the area are the Nivkh, Uilta, Evenki. Children of these nationalities studied and lived in boarding school, now school№2.The identity of the culture of small Nations quickly receded into the past. Teacher Sokolovsky, A. A. and children of the boarding school in 1965.created my school's ethnographic Museum. In 1982. the district Museum was created.

The main Fund of the Museum consisted of the Fund of the school Museum. July 1, 1987. education Nogliki historical and ethnographic Museum, the Museum receives the status of a branch of the Sakhalin regional Museum. In 1990. in the year of celebration of the 60th anniversary of the district, the Museum moved to the building with a historical past, where the First indigenous Congress of the peoples of the North(February 10, 1930).In 1997. the Museum was closed for major repairs, it was given to the building of the former GDK "East".

The exhibition area is 242.7 sq. m. In 2012.a significant event for the Museum was a partial overhaul of the building. The government of the Sakhalin region issued an order to allocate funds for repairs. The Museum for many years not only performs its functions in its activities, but also is active as an ethno-cultural center of the cmns.

The Museum has a club "Nivkhinka", which includes a generation aged 45 to 80 years. Thanks to close cooperation: Museum-people there is a noticeable growth of ethnic consciousness, which entails the preservation of ethnic traditions of the older generation in the transmission of the younger generation. Working circle "Silai Sakura"(Pink rosemary) study weltanscha language.