Great celebrations were held in 1975 in the Jászság on the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the first homestead school. A program titled 'Fifty Years for Education' was welcomed the visitors.

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.

Kaposvár is the favored birth place of the two giant painters Rippl Rónai József and Vaszary János - both significant artists of modern Hungarian artwork. Within seven years in 1861 and 1867 they were born here as children of popular pedagogic families.

The House of Terror Museum, which opens on February 24th , 2002 at 5PM and is unique in its genre, wishes to erect a monument to the memory of those of our compatriots who were held captive, tortured and killed in this building, but apart from presenting the horrors in a digestible manner, it also wishes to make people understand that the sacrifice for freedom was not made in vain. From the fight against the two cruellest systems of the 20th century eventually the forces of freedom and independence came out victoriously.

Frigyes Korányi's house of birth is situated in Nagykálló. Frigyes Korányi was a great figure of Hungarian medicine. He spent 37 years in Nagykálló, in his childhood and during exile.

The permanent exhibition presenting the oeuvre of Miklós Borsos opened in 1979 in the national house the citizens of Győr call Borsos House. The Ilona Kéry Memorial Room showing the inheritance of the widow of the artist was added to the display in 2001.