In the area almost every museum's collections were based by school activities. This happened in Carei as well. Graff Alexander Károlyi settled a Piarist School in 1727-28 and its equipment store had serious geologic and natural collections with educational purpose. Today the museum's archeological, historical collection includes almost 30,000 articles, the natural collection has almost 25,000 objects.

Traffic started on the railway line connecting Budapest and Hatvan in the spring of 1867. The Hungarian state gifted Francis Joseph and queen Elizabeth with the castle and demesne of Gödöllő on the occasion of their coronation in the same year and from that time on, the royal couple and their retinue would regularly travel by train to Gödöllő. In order for the king to be able to travel by train from Vienna directly to Budapest, they connected two lines in the vicinity of Kőbánya station creating the royal track called like this even today.

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 exhibition focuses on the folk art of the Palóc ethnical group. The most beautiful carved wooden items are the works of shepherds. Among the popular ceramics there are the prominent pitchers and jugs of Mezőcsát and Tiszafüred.

Since its establishment, the Museum of Literature has organised almost 500 exhibitions and issued more than 300 scholarly and popularising publications and exhibition catalogues. We hope that our work over the past fifty years has earned us a position in scientific life.

The location of the Ethnographic and Folk Art Exhibition of the County is in one of the nicest buildings of Szentendre. Temporary exhibitions open here in every two year. Its aim is to present the material of Pest County synthesized according to regions.

According to the interest and taste of Ybl, the collection mostly consists of the works of artists of the Hungarian plains and the representatives of post-impressionism in the 1930'ies. The plastic part of the collection presents almost every significant master of the first part of the 20th century. The paintings and statues are displayed on two floors of the house furnished with some pieces of furniture and applied arts items of the Ybl family.