The Memorial Museum of Csesztve is the only memorial place established for Madách. The writer of the Tragedy of man lived in the mansion house of the Nógrádian village between 1844 and 1853. A good number of his poems, letters and confessions were written from Csesztve. He spent the first happy years of his married life here after 1845. He took active part in the political life of the county in the last years of the reform era and in the war for independence in 1848/49

The population of Rátka settlement has been decreasing for decades now, and the culture and traditions of the area show a fading tendency as well. That is why the Local Council decided in 1986 to buy and furnish a peasant cottage that was built in 1824. The house - because its coff style - is now declared a monument building.

Equipments of fire-fighting, drawings of fire-hoses, and remnants of big fires could already be seen by the visitors of private exhibitions in Hungary at the beginning of the 19th century. The material of the Fire-Fighting Museum, established in 1955, was recollected and organized following the adequate law of 1954, which voiced the protection of the technical reminiscences.

The collection plays a dual role. Firstly, information is given to the visitors on the peaceful use of nuclear energy by a permanent exhibition. Secondly, the remembrances of the commissioning and operation period of Paks Nuclear Power Plant and other written and objective documents are collected and displayed, which are in connection with the application of nuclear energy in Hungary.

The Underground Railway Museum, opened in 1975, commemorates the first underground railway of the European continent. The line was inaugurated on the 2nd May 1896. In 1996, for its centenary the whole underground section of the line and the museum, as well were refurbished.

The museum house, which was furnished by Dr. Judit Szűcs and co-workers, introduces the furniture of the fishermen, sailors, the carpenters, and the peasants who lived in this part of the town. The houses of downtown were mainly built with board pediments made by the carpenters of wood that was shipped down the Tisza from the Carpathians. The museum house was restored in its two window version.

The Széchenyi mansion stands in the middle of a beautiful baroque park 12 kms from Sopron, beside road number 85. The building had been rebuilt several times when it got its final feature during the ownership of the "greatest Hungarian" István Széchenyi.