After the objects had arrived from Nias, they were carefully unpacked and registered, by Thomas Thomsen; he was the curator who originally started the project of collecting on Nias. Thomsen had written to Dr. Møller and asked him to buy a few artefacts. This cooperation continued successfully for a couple of years, and the relationship between them, grew to be like that of a father and son.

The exhibition was characterised by the significant number of objects. In one corner a fireplace was reconstructed, with the use of fragments taken from the house. In the windows were hung slides of the photographs taken by Ho Teng Lin, on sunny days when the light shone through them; the visitors could fully experience the quality of the scenes depicted.

The exhibit was not changed until the National Museum of Denmark was enlarged in 1937, when the objects were then moved to another exhibit location.  After the Museum was rebuilt in 1990-92, the artefacts were placed in a depot. Today very few of them are exhibited, as a considerable part of the collection is kept in storage. It is the aim of the museum to put most of the objects on public display, in order to promote the collection and to finally make it accessible to the public and especially to the people from Nias via the Internet.