The building served as a home for children from 1945 until its nationalization in 1996. The building of the castle was commissioned to Pollack Mihály (1773-1855), friend of the family, by the Count Festetics Antal (1764-1853). It was under construction from 1815 to 1819. The castle was surrounded by the most significant English garden of the country.

The Memorial Museum of Csesztve is the only memorial place established for Madách. The writer of the Tragedy of man lived in the mansion house of the Nógrádian village between 1844 and 1853. A good number of his poems, letters and confessions were written from Csesztve. He spent the first happy years of his married life here after 1845. He took active part in the political life of the county in the last years of the reform era and in the war for independence in 1848/49

On 13th September 1991 the technical handing over of the renovated building takes place. In December the Hungarian Museum of Photography opens its doors under the direction of Károly  Kincses. The year after its opening, the director invited dr. Magdolna Kolta to carry out the deputy director position, in order to contribute to the functioning and to the scientific work of the museum.

The Kájel Lace Collection dates from 1908 to the present time. It has been assembled by the Kájel family to honor our parents, Rev. Andreas Kájel and Mrs. Kájel (nee Sophia Koroknai). The Lace house opened July 14, 1996. Lace pieces designed by Mrs. Andreas Kájel and made by the women of the village are included in this exhibition.

Right from the building of the palace fierce disputes were manifested, but its importance in the trend of international secession and in the lifework of Lechner is now an undoubted fact. The building is characterised by the oriental ornamentation of early secession. The harmony of function, high artistic standards and unique forms is secured by modern static structures. The coloured dome adorned with Zsolnay ceramics and the open entrance hall with its wonderful ornaments still make a warm invitation to the visitors.

Műcsarnok seeks to keep the public informed about contemporary art, and do so by interpreting it in the context of the whole of contemporary culture. Acting as a producer, it undertakes to sponsor the creation of new works, especially projects that reflect on the local context, the city and the social environment. In our communication we focus on the audience, seek to react to issues quickly and dynamically.

It is indispensable that a university in a city boasting a higher educational past of 650 years should nurture the memory of its predecessors, hunt out its past and historical relics and then catalogue and exhibit them. On the 625th anniversary of Pécs’s medieval university, and at the instigation of Gábor Kelényi, then rector of the Pécs Medical University, the country's first University History Museum was formed, primarily presenting the history of medical.