We are guiding you into an open-air Ethnographic Museum. All significant works on popular architecture published after the 1930'ies talk about this street of Széplak in Fertő region. Fortunately, five neighbouring houses of the street are still standing, and this gave us the opportunity to not only show this type of traditional houses, but also to recall the athmosphere the street secured in the past.

Those who like taking trips around the country know the region in the West-Danubian area called Kőszeg-Hegyalja. Hills, forests and slightly hidden ploughlands make up this region in Vas County. One of the villages of interest in Kőszeg-Hegyalja is Velem. Its popularity is due to the beautiful scenery and sub-alpine climate. Visitors to the village should visit the Bronze Age settlement unearthed on the Saint Vid Hills.

The foundation of the museum coincided with significant changes in the course of Hungarian history, the development of the national consciousness of the New Age, the spreading of the civic notion of freedom. In 1802 the Count Ferenc Széchényi asked for permission from the Emperor to give his collection in connection with Hungary to the nation. He received permission, thus we take this time to be the year of the foundation of the Hungarian National Museum.

The king Saint Stephen founded the diocese of Eger. We do not know the exact date, but we are positive that it existed in 1009 under the protection of the apostle Saint John and the evangelist John. The old center stood where the castle stands today, near Saint John Abbey. The oldest ecclesiastic building found there was built around the turn of the 10-11th centuries. It is probable that the third bishop of Eger, Buldus, who died when Saint Gellért did, was buried there.

The Museum of Körmend founded in 1965 is located in the main building of the Batthyány-Strattmann castle built in the 17th century. The castle was built on walls of an old castle of the 15th century. Wall paintings from the 17-18th centuries ornament its facade.

The exact date of the settlement of the Jews in Sopron is unknown. However, we know that in the 13th century about 10 to 16 families lived in the New street (former Jewish street). Their street canot be called as a getto, because several Christian families lived here as well. Although the Jews who lived here were not really rich people, at the beginning of the 14th century they somehow managed to build this gothic synagoge unique to the whole of Central Europe.

The only modern building - architect István Janáky - of "Museum street" has housed the last work of Erzsébet Schaár (1908-1975) since 1991 'Ihis reconstructed composition was exhibited originally in Luzerr (1975). "The Street" includes e.g. busts of famous Hungarian artist (Lőrinc Szabó, Irma Patkós) and environment units (Mirror-room. Chairs), which were exhibited separately earlier.