The building within which the Museum is now housed had been constructed in 1997. For nearly eight years it lay vacant and unused. Through the personal intervention of the Commissioner of Meerut Division, Mr. Rajeev Kumar, proper appointments of staff and officer of the Meerut Museum was undertaken.

Mr. Manoj Kumar Gautam, who was appointed as the first full time curator of the Museum, took charge in 2005.

Due to certain limitations, initially two galleries were established in the Museum. The first was dedicated to the eruption of the War of Independence 1857, in Meerut and the second was dedicated to the events of the Great Uprising which occurred in other parts of the country. An advisory committee was set up having the following members to decide on the paintings that were to be displayed at the museum.

The artist who made the paintings and also the dioramas was Mr. Pankaj Agarwal of Delhi

The Museum was inaugurated at 5 pm on the 10th of May, 2007, by Mr. J. S. Deepak, the then Commissioner of Meerut Division, on the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Great War.