The peasant house built in the style of the great Hungarian plains was a part of the Tessedik Sámuel popular high school established in 1938. This institute was meant for the further education of the peasants. Besides maths, literature, geography and history, subjects like falk music (Bartók, Kodály), ethnography and popular arts were also taught. Because of the second World War the popular high school ceased to function.

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.

It was in 1924 when the first thought of establishing a museum first occoured in our institute. The thought was followed by works. In 1931 a small exhibition was arranged at the College, but this was destroyed by the events of World War II. In 1954 a museum room was opened in the college, which was also shut down because of closing up some of the traditional branches. From 1963 negotiations were made again about forming a university museumtól. The Forestry and Timber Industry University was given an operation permit for the Collection of Forestry, Timber Industry and Geodesy.

The farmer house was built in 1911, in traditional style. Its first room is the summer kitchen. The large and small rooms are opening from here. The stove of the large room was heated from the kitchen. Later, when this special kind of stove was not in fashion any more, the large room was turned into a so-called clean room. The chimney of the kitchen was also done away with. That is how the kitchen became an entrance room.

The village of Berkenye is located at the bottom of the Börzsöny hill, in a picturesque environment.

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.

Pál Molnár C. (1894-1981), the renowned freeman of Battonya, was a famous painter and graphic artist. His mother, Jeanne Contat came to Battonya from Switzerland to work as a French tutor in László László's famiily. She got married to the overseer of the farm. The child born to them was called Pál Molnár.