From October 1924 till his death in March 1967 Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967) Hungarian composer lived at the Körönd, named after him today. Both the circus, where the windows look on, and the road with the entrance to the sector-shaped house have preserved numerous features of the historical waves swept across Hungary.

After a 4-month period of day and night work the museum was opened at a new place, in a new form, and under a new name: Police History Museum. The opening ceremony was accompanied by the speeches of dr. Zsolt Visy (Ministry of National Cultural Inheritage) and dr. Péter Orbán (National Police Headquarters).

In the main square of the village, which is the most attractive point of the settlement, there stands the medieval church in which the Hungarian preacher poet used to preach during the two years he spent in Kelemér. Beside the church building there is a museum where visitors canlearn about the most important stations of the poet's life.

The arboretum is a worldwide acknowledged tree compilation. It is not part of the Old Bakony but is the work of farseeing people. The arboretum on 20 hectares were founded by the Cistercian Abbey to save trees and non arboreals native in the Hills of Bakony.

The Lutheran Church Museum which constitutes the third branch of the collections of the Hungarian Lutheran Church besides the Archives and the Library, began its activity in 1979. This exhibition first presents in the history of Hungarian Protestantism the most important manuscripts, printed materials or objects of our Lutheran church ( today not more than 3% of the population ) that have survived after much suffering.

Only 52 villages survived the Ottoman rule, besides larger towns in Pest and Pilis County. The count Péter Zichy invited Catholic German families in 1723 to settle in the region to take the places of Calvinist Hungarian families whose number lessened considerably during Ottoman Hungary.

In Jászberény, former chief town of the Jazygian - Cumanian District, arose the idea - among the first in the country - to establish a museum. Deputy mayor, Orban Sipos stressed the significance of the idea to place the Jazygian relics in a worthy place, so the succeeding generations may look back upon their history. The museum of the Jazygians, which had been placed in one of the Town Hall's courtyard buildings, opened its gates to the public on 24th December 1874.