The foundation of the museum coincided with significant changes in the course of Hungarian history, the development of the national consciousness of the New Age, the spreading of the civic notion of freedom. In 1802 the Count Ferenc Széchényi asked for permission from the Emperor to give his collection in connection with Hungary to the nation. He received permission, thus we take this time to be the year of the foundation of the Hungarian National Museum.

The exhibition open in the main street of the favored spa town provides insight into the spa culture of the Slovak people who settled in the region after the devastation of the Turkish. In the building built at the end of the 19th century, furniture of a room and kitchen of a couple with medium income can be seen.

In the 1960's Ferenc Bours organized a 'Wine Museum' of his own collection of bottled drinks. He became interested in lamps while searching for the proper lighting of the museum. He became so much interested in the beautiful pieces that without noticing it he started to collect them. He bought the objects displayed with his own money with a few exception. There were days when he purchased 20-25 of them. Most of the objects were dirty and rusty, some even lacking parts. Thus after learning the trade of restoration he repaired them all. Presently there are 1000-1100 pieces are displayed in the sole Lamp Museum of the country. The institution was even listed in the Guinness Records.

The 'Hegyvidék Gallery' comes up with a new fine- and applied art exhibition related to the 12th district every 4-6 weeks.

In the main square of the village, which is the most attractive point of the settlement, there stands the medieval church in which the Hungarian preacher poet used to preach during the two years he spent in Kelemér. Beside the church building there is a museum where visitors canlearn about the most important stations of the poet's life.

The Manor can be visited from the northern edge of the village where the church can be found. The village is one of the most beautiful settlements of the Balaton Uplands because of the surrounding landscape and the renovated buildings. The exhibition site gives home to native Hungarian domestic animals (grey cattle, racka sheep, buffalo, mangalica pig, and shepard dogs: komondor, puli).