The museum is housed in one of the two original buildings on the site. It has a very comprehensive group of displays and time in the museum is an integral part of educational visits to the Centre. Outside the museum and in front of the residential building is the geological garden with specimens of local rocks.
The top floor houses a workroom that can be used by small groups. The principal displays on the ground floor and staircase are identified on the location diagram.
- A Desk and Publications
- This is the place where visitors ask questions, can handle bones and rocks and purchase publications and gifts.
- B Joint Mitnor Cave
- A display case providing a very full record of the bones and teeth found in the cave.
- C Limekilns
- A full description of the lime-making process together with a demountable model of a limekiln.
- D Cave Formations
- An illustration, using photographs and specimens, of the range of calcite formations found in caves.
- E Geology
- A summary of the geological structure of the local area.
- F Screen display
- Powerpoint presentations on plate tectonics, coral limestone formation and cave development.
- G Hippo skull
- The skull was recovered from an excavation of a Thames river terrace in London.
- H Late and Middle Quaternary timeline
- A diagram showing the fluctuations in global temperature over 600,000 years with information about sites and the evidence gained from them.
- I Animals and Plants from cold and warm climates
- Two landscape boards where visitors can place magnetic cut-outs of animals and plants that belong to different climatic environments.
- J William Pengelly
- A copy of the portrait that hangs in Torquay Museum together with information about the man and his work.
- K The Little Man
- Fact, folklore and fiction about the celebrated formation in Reeds Cave.
- L Cave Invertebrates
- Brief descriptions of the animals that live (continually or for part of their life cycle) in the total or partial darkness of the cave environment.
- M Caves of Buckfastleigh Hill
- A map that outlines the cave systems in Buckfastleigh Hill.
- N Videos and Leaflets
- Videos showing film and commentary from the early days of cave exploration in the quarry, together with local information leaflets.
- O Damage to Joint Mitnor Cave
- A panel that describes the break-in to Joint Mitnor Cave, the theft of bones and how the Trust dealt with this.
- P Cave Conservation
- A commentary on the factors that lead to cave damage or destruction, linking this to the issues raised in display O.
- Q Aerial photograph
- A captioned aerial photograph of Buckfastleigh Hill as it was in the early days of the Centre.
- R Bat photographs by John Hooper
- Two panels on the staircase include photographs of bats taken by John Hooper who, with his wife Win, pioneered research into bats in local caves and elsewhere from the late 1940s onwards.
- S Life history of bats and other mammals
- A sequence of panels at the top of the staircase that describe in some detail the life histories of animals to be found in and around caves.
- T Cave Bear
- Behind the publications desk is a full size painting of a cave bear.