The so-called Püspökkert stands out as a green isle in the center of the town, where excavations discovered significant groups of buildings in the Colonia Claudia Savaria established in around 50 AD. The foundation of the palace was possibly 200 times 200 metres. At present we only know the Western and Eastern area of the gigantic building, for the medieval round castle and the girls' school were erected on the same site.

Following Berlin and Tulln, Szerencs Sugar Museum is the third biggest if the kind in Europe. The manager of the museum was awarded the "Pro Urbe Szerencs" prize for what he had done in order to let people know more about the town of Szerencs and the Sugar Factory.

"His art is highly regarded; his life is a paragon of virtue. If I wanted to characterise his art, I would recall those of his works in which his creative imagination believed itself beautiful and invulnerable. If I wanted to catch sight of his moral conduct, I would have to invoke his words and deeds." In this introduction, the student - Ferenc (Sebesta) Sebestény (1907-1972), a painter born in Sopron who worked in Budapest, was one of József Horváth's most distinguished students - recalls his late teacher and friend, reverently trying to evoke his spirit.

After a long period of hardships and several movings the museum found its final place in the Lenck mansion of Deák square. In 1987 the government purchased the Storno house and the collection, and the museum management and the region history collection were moved to the Storno house at this time.

The János Tornyai Museum was founded in 1905. Its ethnographic collection was based on the objects collected by Lajos Kiss with the instructions of János Tornyai for the Industrial and Agricultural exhibition of 1904. The institution extended by a department of archeology in 1930. The basis of the collection of fine arts is the almost five hundred pictures of the painter János Tornyai.

Gáspár Noszlopy, commissioner of Somogyi County and later the south of Transdanubia, was born in the cottage in 1849. The building holds the exhibition titled 'Somogy in the Reformation Age and at the Time of the War of Independence of 1848-49'.

The museum established in 1959 functions in the mansion of the Esterházy-family. In the 18th century the aristocrat family turned the medieval castle into a baroque mansion. The representative baroque mansion gained its present form in the 17th and 18th centuries, according to the sketches of architect Franz Anton.