Agricultural town Bonyhád became the centre of the fast developing Völgység, where the most oppulent noblemen of the region erected mansions and dwelling houses. The Nunkovits family also had property in the Piac Square. Members of the family had been land owners and county clarks in Tolna and Baranya counties.

László Németh lived at three different addresses in the town. When the writer's family and the town dicided about the establishment of a permanent exhibition hall, they chose the building of the girls' grammar school, where the writer lived and taught between 1947 and 1948. The exhibition was opened on 11th May 1981.

The Municipal Museum first opened on 11 November 1994 in the tarnished national building known as Ispita. In 1997 the Esterházy Palace, where the official residence is at present, was acquired. In 1998 the Margit Kovács and the Miklós Borsos permanent exhibitions were added to our programs in the original edifices. In 1999 we broadened our programs by the Graphics Workshop of Győr, in 2000 the first creative house, in 2004 the second creative house. From 2006 we also make use of the building of the Synagogue together with the university.

The museum building is the larges renaissance mansion of Hungary. This makes it a highly valued monument. The history of the building stretches back long before. In the 14th century it was part of the Tokaj castle. After the Ottoman occupation it was transmitted to the Serédi, then the Alaghy family. In 1571 the Mágóchy family obtained ownership over it. The walls of the mansion still senn today were erected between 1560 and 1581.

Initially it was an iron foundry founded by Ábrahám Ganz (born in Unter Embrach, Zurich County, Switzerland, in 1814, died in Pest, Hungary, on December 15, 1867). Chilled iron railway wheels, railway-crossing points, corn milling rolls were produced on the base of Ganz's patent.

Horpács used to be a real refuge for Mikszáth. The old and deseased man yearned for peace and queit, which he found among his relatives and in the familiar athmosphere of his childhood. This was a place he could flee to from the noise of the city swelling more and more into a metropolis.

The population of Rátka settlement has been decreasing for decades now, and the culture and traditions of the area show a fading tendency as well. That is why the Local Council decided in 1986 to buy and furnish a peasant cottage that was built in 1824. The house - because its coff style - is now declared a monument building.