In 1955 a little group of students - under the leadership of teacher László Neogrády - began to collect relics of local history in Újpest. The devoted company at first collected materials from their friends and relatives. At this time the collection was only large enough to be used for presentations and school activities. The real work started in 1957. From this date on the task of László Nógrády was "merely" to keep and file the items and documents collected. As the collection work grew out of the frames of a school activity.

Ábrahám Ganz founded his foundry in 1844 in Buda. The small plant turned to be a well-known engineering company in his lifetime. The price of the location of the factory rose after the war and on account of the development of the district and so the idea occurred that the factory should be moved.

The building called Papszer was originally the managment building of the Herman Ottó Museum. Today it is an exhibition place of several chambers, and it directly belongs to the centre.

The works of the Hungarian egg painters are exhibited in regional units. Some Israeli, Chinese and Indonesian pieces are seen, too. Pieces of popular and applied arts are displayed in the glass-cases as well. Postcards and replicas can be purchased of the nicest pieces in the exhibition. The museum offers a whole set of paints, other tools and counsels necessary for egg painting at home.

In 1971 a Factory History Museum was founded in Ózd in order protect and exhibit the historical relics and the life circumstances of the workers during the famous iron production done here. Since 1994 the history of the settlement has also appeared in the exhibitions.

The vernacular buildings of Ófalu, the villahe part of the World Heritage, recall the Palóc architecture of the beginning of the 20th century. The museum that used to be a dwelling house opposite the church in the center of the village functions since 1964.

The Museum of Hungarian Water Management and Environmental Protection (Danube Museum) was founded in 1973. The museum is located in Esztergom downtown, in a baroque building which was built in 1730 for as a capitulars building.