Nagyecsed is in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, close to the Romanian border. The little town of 7500 people belonged to the Marshes of Ecsed. Ecsed was named at the time of the Original Settlement. The name Ecsed meant 'younger brother'. The village was made popular by the fortress that once stood there. Both the Báthori and Rákóczi family praised it.

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 plant plays crucial role in saving buffalo and buffalo genes in Hungary. It is also the centre of information about the animal where the visitors can meet the animals in person.

The education history collection of Szendrő was opened in 1982. Collection works were led by Dr. István Demjén. Selections were made of the school historical values of Cserehát area.

On 1st December 2000 an extended open-air macjchine park was opened on the yard of the mining museum. A diminished (1:6) shaft tower was handed over in 2001.

Its builders and owners, the Kompolti family, descendents of the Aba clan, lived in the castle for many centuries. The end of the family line in the sixteenth century signaled the castle's fall from grace. The ruins show all the characteristics of fifteenth century aristocratic castles having a palace, chapel, and living and service buildings protected by two rings of fortifications. The walls of the fourteenth century chapel still stand, betraying evidence of several previous building operations. The church was once surrounded by a graveyard and several gravestones can still be seen.

Our institute was formed as the National Theatre History Museum in 2nd November 1952. The museum moved to its present residence (District I, 57 Krisztina körút, District I), the Áldássy-mansion. The first permanent exhibition opened in the same year.