The compilation was founded in 1962 when the Jászság was latched on to the national electric network. The first exhibition on local history was part of the program series organized to commemorate the event.

The guard of the Káli Basin is Hegyestű situated 337 m high between Zánka and Monoszló. The north part of the hill that looks like a cone from the Lake Balaton was removed by the stone mine once operating there. The remaining almost 50-meter-high wall, however, uncovers the inside of the basalt volcano that was in operation 5-6 million years ago.

Its builders and owners, the Kompolti family, descendents of the Aba clan, lived in the castle for many centuries. The end of the family line in the sixteenth century signaled the castle's fall from grace. The ruins show all the characteristics of fifteenth century aristocratic castles having a palace, chapel, and living and service buildings protected by two rings of fortifications. The walls of the fourteenth century chapel still stand, betraying evidence of several previous building operations. The church was once surrounded by a graveyard and several gravestones can still be seen.

Traffic started on the railway line connecting Budapest and Hatvan in the spring of 1867. The Hungarian state gifted Francis Joseph and queen Elizabeth with the castle and demesne of Gödöllő on the occasion of their coronation in the same year and from that time on, the royal couple and their retinue would regularly travel by train to Gödöllő. In order for the king to be able to travel by train from Vienna directly to Budapest, they connected two lines in the vicinity of Kőbánya station creating the royal track called like this even today.

The predecessor in title of the Customs and Excise Guard Museum opened in 1930 at the Fiume Street Barracks of the Hungarian Royal Excise Guard. The objective of the founder, the controller Béla Bitterman, was to save objects that showed the history and development of the excise service for the posterity, as well as providing a large material on enquiries related to revenue proceedings for the officers to learn.

The Ludwig Museum is the sole arts museum collecting international and contemporary artworks The Hungarian Cultural government established the museum in 1989. The basis of the collection is 70 works of art by contemporary artists working after 1955. The collection was bestowed by the couple Ludwig and the Ludwig Foundation of Aachen to the Hungarian state.

The Homestead Museum of Kopáncs, which is situated by road 47, is one of the showrooms of the János Tornyai Museum. It presents the lifestyle of the peasantry at the beginning of the 20th century.