Ormós Zsigmond (1813-1894), the founder of Banat Museum, started buying the objects of art after 1857, when, because of political persecutions, he sold his fortune inherited from his uncle and autoexiled to Italy. He studied the history of Italian art in the 14-19th centuries, he visitied museums, libraries, archeological excavations and the studios of the artists in this country and in the West of Europe, he took part in public auctions of objects of art. A few works bought first were sent to the museum in Budapest, then he tried making up a personal collection following mainly the picture of Venice, come out of the studios of the famous masters' disciples.

The region between the Danube and Tisza always attracted the settlers. Before the Foundation of the State nomad pastors, from the middle of the 2nd century people who cultivated plans and different type of artisans spread on the area.

The Busó festivities is a tradition stemming from a few thousand-year-old nature-praising belief system: its source was the worship of the mythological figure of the God Pan. It was the celebration of the ancient tribes, pastors, forest men from the Adriatic to the Balaton. It is a wonder that against all prohibitions of the Church and the unprofessional treatment the tradition is still preserved nowadays.

One of the most beautiful baroque palaces of the city is located in the Inner City, built in 1784 by Pál Almásy, a local nobleman who played significant role in the city. In 1934 the building ‒ known by the locals as the Crown-House (in March 1806, during the Napoleon wars, the Holy Crown was moved to Gyöngyös, to be hidden in the Almásy Palace) ‒ was bought by the diocese of St. Bartholomew Church for 40 000 pengő, partly paid from public donation.

In the 14th and 15th centuries, Kisvárda was the property of the Várdai family, several of whose members held high religious and secular office. The town lay at the junction of roads linking Munkács, Beregszász, and Szatmár, by way of the Tisza bend, with Királyhelmec, Kassa, and the towns and mining centers of the Szepesség. These transportation links explain why Kisvárda served as an important commercial center.

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.

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.