Quotation from the Deed of Foundation: "The Creative Establishment and Symposium provides good chance to the Hungarian and international sculptors for developing their art activities; for cooperating with each others and for discussion between artists and public educational experts... Invitation is a request at the same time to carve a wood sculpture of big size that needs a large out space, harmonizes with the landscape and can be placed at the open-air exhibition.

After Ottoman Hungary, the village of Etyek was nearly completely devastated, that there were just a few workers left living in the village. Following the initiation of the Jesuit order, Catholic Germans were settled in the village. Independent of their origins, the Germans were called Swabians by the locals.

Throughout the history of the village, the earth at this area absorbed numerous memories. The lucky people and those in search of the past found many interesting findings. However, it was necessary to organize a conscious way of collecting these objects. I tried to teach my students that they should never pass by any object of the past in the fields, on the bank of the Rába, or on the attic without taking it into their hands and bringing it in to the museum.

The house with thached roofing and mud walls was built at the end of the 18th century. Its special roof structure was formes around 1870. On the fron wall there are two windows and a narrow clay gutter held by two beams.

The oldest part of Ócsa is the 'Old Village'. It is a real ethnographic curiosity with the Roman basilica built in the 13th century in the middle of the village. In 1975, the village part with 62 houses was declared protected since the structure of this part of the village is hundreds of years old.

The building was taken over by the museum in 1978. Today it is the center of the Board of Directors of the Museums of the County. Beside the roman stone collection a new Archeological exhibition is open for the visitors. The central studio of restorations, the photo laboratory, and the storage house are all situated in the main building. The anthropological collection and the stone collection of the museum that is the largest in Hungary as well as the rooms of the researchers and the auditoriums are located here.

The foundation of the museum coincided with significant changes in the course of Hungarian history, the development of the national consciousness of the New Age, the spreading of the civic notion of freedom. In 1802 the Count Ferenc Széchényi asked for permission from the Emperor to give his collection in connection with Hungary to the nation. He received permission, thus we take this time to be the year of the foundation of the Hungarian National Museum.