The village Vársád is nearly 800 years old. After the Turkish left, evangelic Germans settled in the uninhabited village in 1713-1786 arriving from the Hessen region. The new settlers were involved in farming and husbandry. Vine growing and pomology were also very emphatic. Almost all households had a press and a smaller vineyard.

The village belongs to the Galga Valley in a wider sense. The traditional world of this Roman Catholic community is represented by this exhibition opened in 1970. The Village Council bought the building together with its belongings. The exhibition was arranged with the ethnographic objects collected by Roman Catholic parson Gyula Kozár bought with the help of public contribution. The house was built in the first half of the 19th century and was possessed by the Soós family for several generations.

During our history many valiant peple made visits or lived for longer periods in Álmosd.

Quotation from the Deed of Foundation: "The Creative Establishment and Symposium provides good chance to the Hungarian and international sculptors for developing their art activities; for cooperating with each others and for discussion between artists and public educational experts... Invitation is a request at the same time to carve a wood sculpture of big size that needs a large out space, harmonizes with the landscape and can be placed at the open-air exhibition.

Entering from the street a wonderful picture opens up in front of the eyes of the visitors. Behind the high plank fence a white house stands with windows and doors painted blue. The Germans favored this blue. Until the beginning of the century, almost everything was painted blue. These colors and the flowers lend warmth to the building.

Our institute was formed as the National Theatre History Museum in 2nd November 1952. The museum moved to its present residence (District I, 57 Krisztina körút, District I), the Áldássy-mansion. The first permanent exhibition opened in the same year.

We are guiding you into an open-air Ethnographic Museum. All significant works on popular architecture published after the 1930'ies talk about this street of Széplak in Fertő region. Fortunately, five neighbouring houses of the street are still standing, and this gave us the opportunity to not only show this type of traditional houses, but also to recall the athmosphere the street secured in the past.