Segesd and its suburbs have been a densely populated place ever since prehistoric times. During the Roman dominion and after the Original Settlement, it was a place where important roads crossed. The chief and tribe leader settled near Segesd in the first half of the 10th century. After the Hungarian constitution, Segesd belonged to the Episcopate of Veszprém. Overseers of the king and later the queen lived in the centre. The royal 'Comitatus of Segesd' of King Béla IV was first mentioned in a charter from 1245, or rather the land of the overseer and his name Mihály, the son of Jákó.

Győr, the centre of the county governor was a fortified place from as early as the age of King Saint Stephen (1000-1038). The medieval castle encircled the Chapter Hill (Káptalandomb). The strategic importance of the castle was enlarged during the Turkish Age (16-17th centuries) when becoming the strongest fortress of the defence line it played the part of the defence bastion of the emperor's city (Vienna) and the whole Christian World.

In the beginning of the 1930 ies an open-air collection was opened in the yard of the Palóc Museum of Balassagyarmat. The first Hungarian permanent collection at this time was consisted only of one dwelling house, but articles written by Zsigmond Bátky and Sándor Ébner suggested that it should be extended to a whole agricultural yard.<

The once owner of the house built hundreds of years ago was the post master Samuel Gerhauser. The new owner János Hatvani Szabó had the building reconstructed based on regulations of the National Monument Controls. The rooms downstairs with unique atmosphere are now open with exhibitions.

The BLASKOVICH MUSEUM in Tápiószele is the only mansion museum of the country, which survived harmlessly - even in its furniture - the vicissitudes of the World War II. The history of the museum of Tápiószele started on two threads.

The biggest agricultural museum of Europe was founded in the Vajdahunyad Castle of the City Park, Budapest. The building itself is unique; too, for its architect Ignác Alpár merged various styles by using single parts of significant buildings found in Hungary at the time. The building had originally been built for the Millennium Exhibition and has given place for the Museum of Hungarian Agriculture (founded in 1896) since 1897.