Thanks to her growing sense of nationhood and her developing middle class, during the course of the nineteenth century Hungary saw the creation of several museums. First among these new institutions was the National Museum. A museum dedicated solely to the history of Budapest came into existence only toward the end of the last century. Its core collection consisted of finds from the building sites, from archaeological excavations, and earlier collections which help shed light on of Budapest's history.

The Tábornokház by the Alsókapu in Kőszeg now functions as the Municipal Museum. It was named Tábornokház (General’s House) as it was the house the generals of any garrison used to stay when visiting Kőszeg.

The building of the museum was built in 1823, the year of the birth of Petőfi. It was built by István Szűcs, which is perceivable on a sign in the hallway down to the cellar. The building functioned as a living quarter until 1960. In this very year the teacher Lajos Szabó tried everything to have the building renovated. This enterprise was successful and since that time this little building serves as our museum.

The Styrian houses were built by the Town of Kőszeg in the middle of the 1750's for the families who moved in from Styria. It was important as the 3000 hectare of forest they received from the treasure to bee used professionally.

In the area almost every museum's collections were based by school activities. This happened in Carei as well. Graff Alexander Károlyi settled a Piarist School in 1727-28 and its equipment store had serious geologic and natural collections with educational purpose. Today the museum's archeological, historical collection includes almost 30,000 articles, the natural collection has almost 25,000 objects.

The millennial town of Sopron has had centuries old connections with mining even before the opening of our museum. Mineral coal was first discovered in 1753 in the historical Hungary, in the woods around Sopron in the area, which is now called Brennbergbánya. Here the coal was started to be used for industrial purposes with very good results until 1951. In 1920, The School of Mining and Forestry that was transferred here from Selmecbánya according to the "Decision of Trianon" started to function in Sopron.

The Mészöly Miklós Museum in the House of Literature can be reached starting from the Main Square of Szekszárd in the bend of the stream Séd. It is next to the house of birth of Mihály Babits. Polcz Alaine donated most of the heritage of Mészöly Miklós (1921-2001) to the town of Szekszárd in 2003.