The park-museum was founded on August 30, 1990, and opened its doors just over a year later, on November 25, 1991, thanks to the initiative of Anfisa Mikhailovna Khamova. The name 'Nayotyr Maa' translates from Mansi as 'land of ancestors, great-grandfathers, forefathers', meaning 'homeland'. The park-museum is located in a small natural forest.

On the museum's territory, you can see traditional structures of the indigenous peoples of the region: a winter camp, a log house with a chuvak, a hunting platform, a canopy, as well as summer structures: a summer house, a clay oven for baking bread, a sacred fishing platform, a fishing station with a birch bark tent, drying racks for nets, a trap with snares, and a chum with a coral enclosure for reindeer.

'Nayotyr Maa' houses exhibits that showcase the culture and lifestyle of local peoples. Here you can see a ring for decoy ducks and a fish silencer made of birch wood. The museum also preserves a preparation and rope made from willow bark, which is over 60 years old, crafted by Kyrylo Petrovich Vynhilev. Additionally, works by artist and woodcarver Pyotr Yefimovich Sheshkin and other exhibits are presented.