The monument building built in the popular baroque-style - where the Indigo Print Museum is placed - was formed of one of the towers of the town walls in the beginning of the 19th century.

The idea of building a museum was first announced in 1989 in an article written by the teacher Borbély György. In 1907, the teachers of the Grammar School began to collect old objects of ethnography. Most of them were scattered at the time of WWI, the rest were taken to Keszthely.

With the help of dioramas, the visitors may peep in the world of wide waters, forests and animals that mostly appear at night. The typical plants and invertebrates of the forests are displayed in showcases. We show lots of beautiful photos, maps, and graphics as well.

There was a beautiful water tower in the middle of the town, which was out of order. We asked for it to make a monument of the history of industry of it. After we were granted the tower, we decided on processing the history of wells in it and make it possible for the audience to visit it. Everybody collected something. I provided the furnishing of the museum. After we were done, we invited the leadership of the town. We were so successful that they offered support to expand the show right on that spot.

The headquarters once belonged to the de la Motte family. De la Motte (Jolly des Alnois) was the lieutenant-colonel of Ferenc Károly. He and his wife Neuer és Hochenberg Krisztina bought the building in Buda in 1760 built on the ruins of a house destroyed during the siege of Buda in 1686.

In the 18th and 19'h centuries the peasants and craftspeople of Baranya created their own unique tools and vessels. Their popular art reflects the wonderful talent of different groups of several tongues and religions. Baranya County is home to several minorities: ten ethnographic groups of Hungarians; Germans; Croatians; Serbs and Gypsies.

Old maps still have the mills on at the beginning of Malom Street and on the square in front of the Cultural Center where, according to documents, two mills stood. In these mills, the grinding stones were turned by animal power. The crops grown in Szegvár were also ground in water mills in Tisza and Kurca.