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.

The Museum of Hungarian Naive Artists opened in 1976 in Kecskemét. The museum presents the works of contemporary naive sculptors and painters. The aim is to introduce naive artists for the audience and make them popular. The institution is situated in the middle of the town of Kecskemét. The museum that collects its material from all over Hungary is hosted by a house built in the 18th century. The west wing of the national monument was built earlier.

One of the most significant institutions of the museum is the science labor that performs the collecting, preserving, and displaying functions according to needs. The number of the pieces in the collection is over half a million. The storages hold the material of five fields of study: art history, ethnography, archeology, the history of modern age, and natural sciences. Among them, we can find objects, documents from the archives, photos, and sound material.

After WWII, the church was slowly rebuilt. The vicar János Tóth founded the Collection of Ecclesiastic Art, the museum of the church in 1966. It was located in the chapels, side rooms, oratory and the gallery of the church. The institution has been the base of preserving the church. The dear objects of use became museum objects. However, at important festivities some of them are still used occasionally. The museum of the church received several objects in the past few years as donations but also bought some.

The Roman stone store was first opened its gate before the visitors in the cellar of the Fabricius house in 1962. It was renovated in 1994. Since the medievals the house had been owned by oppulent patricians. Its gained its current form in the 18th century.

The part named Bukher in the village of Szűcs began to develop in the 19th century. The Bajza Cottage built in the 18th century in Classicist style is in the East side of the yard. The house in which Bajza was born is a one story little house in the yard. It consists of rooms with ceilings made of beams opening from each other.

Close to the Széchenyi Castle in Nagycenk, as the result of the work of the Győr-Sopron-Ebenfurt Railways the steam engine of the Museum of Transportation called Széchenyi Museum Railwayscame to existence in 1972.