The idea of building a museum was first announced in 1989 in an article written by the teacher Borbély György. In 1907, the teachers of the Grammar School began to collect old objects of ethnography. Most of them were scattered at the time of WWI, the rest were taken to Keszthely.

In 1875 Princes Windischgrätz, and after the second worls war the Hungarian government became the owners of the castle. The museum has been protecting the Rákóczi inheritance since 1950.

From the second half of the last century, the Bunjevci built the same type of houses as they did in the Hungarian Plain. The restored Bunyevác Tájház, or "Bunjevac House", is also a representative of this type of building. It consists of a kitchen, two bedrooms on each side of the kitchen, a stable and a pen. The walls are built from adobe building blocks; the roof is made of reeds.

The art of Jenő Barcsay (1900-1988) is a concept not only in Szentendre but also in the history of the art of the 20th century in Hungary: he was a representative of constructivism, even so figurative constructivism. He did the mosaics of public buildings, wall textiles. He was the author of Artistic Anatomy used in medical training.

He brought the summerhouse in the outskirts of Kaposvár, among the vineries in 1908. A park, arable, and meadows surrounded the house. It was the paradise for artists even when he bought it. The house had formed from 1868 for forty years when owned by the opera singer György Gundy. Gundy also gave the name Roma Cottage to the house since the cottage stood on the Roma Hill. Rippl-Rónai became a landowner in 1908. Later he brought four acres to the ten had he already owned. He kept cattle, horses, donkey, poultry, dogs, bees, and peacocks.

The imprinted brick collection shown here was collected by the master builder Nándor Őri, member of the management of the Dombóvár Town Development and Protecting Society. The dwelling tower built in the early Middle Ages hosts 765 bricks made in various ages and in different workshops.

The biggest agricultural museum of Europe was founded in the Vajdahunyad Castle of the City Park, Budapest. The building itself is unique; too, for its architect Ignác Alpár merged various styles by using single parts of significant buildings found in Hungary at the time. The building had originally been built for the Millennium Exhibition and has given place for the Museum of Hungarian Agriculture (founded in 1896) since 1897.