The donator offered over 150 potteries from Óbánya made in the 19-20th century for us if we provide proper accommodation for them initiated our exhibition. Our association accepted the condition and we opened the exhibition in one of the public buildings of the village on 5, July. 1997. Mrs. Lantos, Márta Imre, ethnographer, was of professional help.

The permanent exhibition presents the works of László Holló, Ferenc Medgyesy, Gyula Feledy, Imre Szilágyi, Sándor Bodó, János Józsa, András Kiss Nagy. In the two temporal exhibition halls a variety of collections are displayed, which present the works of artists coming from the region.

Schöffer's student and colleague, Lajos Dargay put together the items of the permanent exhibition. The collection of 46 pieces involve works of space dynamics as well as those of cybernetics. (Near the museum there stands the 27 metres high Light House, which also reflects credit on the master.

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.

After the change of political system the statues were removed from Budapest's streets to the museum. This is the world's only such collection from the period of communist cultural politics. It's the most exciting outdoor museum in Eastern Europe.

The national monument, a typical example of fashionable houses in Gyömrő at the turn of the 19-20th century at 46 Gr. Teleki Street, was built in the 1840s. An ethnographic and local history collection was opened in the building in 1983, the result of the effort of the Pál Mihály Circle.