Three museums, the Museum of Criminology, the Commodities Museum, and the Archaeological Museum, were merged into the Meiji University Museum.
The special exhibition room holds exhibitions to disseminate the university's academic resources and research results.

Permanent exhibition
Commodity
A variety of traditional Japanese crafts born from Japanese lifestyle, including ceramics, lacquerware, and textiles are exhibited.This exhibition presents an overview of traditional Japanese craftsmanship, which is unique in the world in its richness of design and expression.

Criminal Materials
The museum presents documents related to police, trials and punishment in the Edo period. And instrument of torture, punishment tools, and tools for catching criminals of the time, as well as the modern world punishment tools are on display. "The Guillotine" and "The Iron Maiden of Nuremberg" (reproduction) are exhibited only here in Japan.

Archaeology
Meiji University has played a key role in the development of Japanese archaeology, and the history and results of its many investigations are displayed here.The museum exhibits a variety of excavated articles such as haniwa and dogu, the clay figurines, excavated from ancient Japanese ruins.