Géza Gorka played a pioneering role in the renewal of Hungarian ceramic art. Through his activity Hungarian ceramics rose to an European level and has become known all over the world. The centre of his art is nature. He applied the reminiscences of Hanán (anabaptist handicraftsmens') ceramics. He also experimented with new methods of the 20th century. He followed the most ancient, functional directions of ceramics. He regarded the characteristics of the materials as the most important factor of his work.

The museum functions in the ex-residency of one of the most flourishing textile businesses of the past, in the main building of the Goldberger Company founded in 1784. In the ground floor of the more then 200-year-old building there had been a clothe-painting business going on, and the first floor was used by the Goldberger family. In the continuously expounding factory there were made pressed textiles, a number of which were meant for European export.

Fülesd is a village situated in a region named Erdőhát, in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County with a population of nearly 500. It is about 95 km east of Nyíregyháza and 15 km from the Ukranian-Romanian-Hungarian border.

In the ares of 150-200 hectares there stood a military camp in the 1st century after Christ. In the 2nd and 3rd centuries it served as a residency for region committees (concilium provinciae) of Pannonia Inferior province. From the end of the 3rd century a new town was built in the place of the ruined settlement. Its name was Herculia, which probably was the county townl of Valeria province.

The operational permission was given to the Region History Collection in 1966. During the more than 30 years of its existance it had to move several times, until it found its final home in 1992. The town has been its maintainer ever since.

economic and cultural development of the town. Their influence is still felt today. In 1797 Earl György Festetics founded the Georgikont, the first agricultural university in Europe. Visitrors can get acquainted with the history of the Hungarian agriculture and the education pursued in Keszthely.

The headquarters once belonged to the de la Motte family. De la Motte (Jolly des Alnois) was the lieutenant-colonel of Ferenc Károly. He and his wife Neuer és Hochenberg Krisztina bought the building in Buda in 1760 built on the ruins of a house destroyed during the siege of Buda in 1686.