In 1950 József Kutnyánszky became chief official of Mecsek Coalmines National Company. He was giving much assistance to Dr. András Babics who was at the time researching the history of coal mining in Komló. They used to talk much about the sed end of peasant life in the region. He was told for the first time to found a museum.

The monument building of the museum stands near the town center, under house number 11 Dózsa György Rd. On its classicist front wall, above the wrought iron gate, there reads the year of its building: 1827. During the reform era the Zemplén Casino Society operated here, which gathered the progressive intellectuals of the county and the town. The building served as the local council between 1894 and 1950. The museum moved to its present place in 1990.

The building was owned by the ploughman Johann Lukas with the house next to it. It is not proven that the date on the façade 1829 is valid. The front fence however with the monolith stone pillars with the initials J.L seem like the work of masters of the olden times.

The Memorial Museum of Csesztve is the only memorial place established for Madách. The writer of the Tragedy of man lived in the mansion house of the Nógrádian village between 1844 and 1853. A good number of his poems, letters and confessions were written from Csesztve. He spent the first happy years of his married life here after 1845. He took active part in the political life of the county in the last years of the reform era and in the war for independence in 1848/49

The Pál Kiss Museum is one of the oldest rural collection of Hungary. It was founded by Roman Catholic priest Endre Taricky in 1877. At the beginning the collection - named Archeologic Union of the Tisza Region - had about 400 items. The union welcomed all kinds of members, regardless of their religious or social status. Calvinist teacher Béla Milesz and Endre Tariczky contributed much to the functioning of the union for more than three decades.

The Village Museum of Göcsej built on the blind of the River Zala presents the memories of the vernacular people's architectural and inhabiting culture of the village. The wooden church that was destroyed in Zalacséb is of special interest.

Unfortunately the fundamental goals of the museum (that is to save all valuable documents, photos, instruments and objects) could not have been entirely accomplished. However, we still managed to save and keep 2100 appliances and objects, 10000 photographs and 500 documents, and through this establish a special and complex electronic museum of precision-mechanics, which goes without parallel in the country.