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 arboretum is a worldwide acknowledged tree compilation. It is not part of the Old Bakony but is the work of farseeing people. The arboretum on 20 hectares were founded by the Cistercian Abbey to save trees and non arboreals native in the Hills of Bakony.

Ferenc Hopp died on 9, September, 1919 in his cottage on Andrássy Street. In his will, he left several valuables to people and gave order for the foundation of the Museum.

It is not by chance that 18th Tárnok street was chosen as a building for the exhibition, since a chemist' was functioning here right from the middle of the 18th century. The bottom floor of the building was always used for trading purposes. After several restorations it gained its present form during the 18-19th centuries. That is when the officina (the room for customer service) and the laboratory were made.

The museum representing the old type of recorders can be found in one of the nice villages in Nógrád county - Terény. This collection is the largest private collection in the world which covers brands both from the western and eastern parts of the world.

After having been represented in several Hungarian (Hungarian National Gallery, Somogy Gallery) and foreign galleries, a permanent exhibition of the works of Ferenc Nagy was opened in 1983 in the town of his birth - Tab. In his will the artist left his works to Tab, so that they can be seen permanently. The Gallery of Tab opened iits extended and renovated exhibition halls in 1999.

The János Tornyai Museum was founded in 1905. Its ethnographic collection was based on the objects collected by Lajos Kiss with the instructions of János Tornyai for the Industrial and Agricultural exhibition of 1904. The institution extended by a department of archeology in 1930. The basis of the collection of fine arts is the almost five hundred pictures of the painter János Tornyai.