Karacs Ferenc born in Ladány (1770-1838) was a popular map illustrator and engraver in Budapest. The collection named after him began as a school museum in 1959 organized by Mrs Rettegi István. On 1 October 1978 the museum was officially renamed Karacs Ferenc Museum.

The village of Tés is the highest built settlement of the Bakony. It was built on the plateau which is 461 meters above see level. First the name of the village was mentioned in a charter from 1276. In the 15th century it belonged to the nerby Royal castle. Under the reign of the Turkish, in 1590 the village depopulated but in the 18th century people, who were the thralls of the provost of Székesfehérvár, started to occupy the village again. In the 1790s settlers from Germany arrived to Tés.

The house and the studio was used for varied things in the past decades. Once it was a kitchen for the police, then a MNDSZ headquarter, a shoemaker workshop etc. The house in which the painter was born was turned into an exhibition ward while the town library and the GAMESZ was moved to the old studio. Presently a tourist agency is run in the studio while in the other part original paintings by Vágó Pál can be seen.

The museum presents the history of honey cake making, the different honey cake and candle as well as the traditional Christmas fondant making techniques. We illustrate the way the tools were used by the help of a DVD so the visitors do not only use their imagination but can see the way these tools were utilized.

Great celebrations were held in 1975 in the Jászság on the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the first homestead school. A program titled 'Fifty Years for Education' was welcomed the visitors.

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