The exhibition organised in conjunction with the Fortepan digital photo archive evokes the Hungarian capital in its heyday, at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Researchers from Fortepan discovered negatives of photographs of Budapest, hitherto unknown in Hungary, taken by a German postcard publishing company and preserved in the collection of the Deutsche Fotothek in Dresden.

The monument building of the museum stands near the town center, under house number 11 Dózsa György Rd. On its classicist front wall, above the wrought iron gate, there reads the year of its building: 1827. During the reform era the Zemplén Casino Society operated here, which gathered the progressive intellectuals of the county and the town. The building served as the local council between 1894 and 1950. The museum moved to its present place in 1990.