The mill was built by Andor Czékus in 1821. Later, György Faragó purchased it in 1900. At the beginning it was used for grinding grains in several qualities. The work was done as a family business. To use out the seasonal winds, the mill many times was running day and night.

This house is more than just a museum in the traditional sense of the word. The purpose of the founders has been to preserve and show as much as possible of both Szőnyi's works and the milieu where these works were created. So visitors seeing the collection of Szőnyi's outstanding works the visitors can enter a world not existing any more, can get acquainted with the relics of the studio otherwise closed from the public.

The Museum Union of Nógrád County was formed in Balassagyarmat in 15th March 1891. The main purpose of the union was to search for and collect everything connected to history, archeology, ethnography and natural science of especially Nógrád county.

Nagyecsed is in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, close to the Romanian border. The little town of 7500 people belonged to the Marshes of Ecsed. Ecsed was named at the time of the Original Settlement. The name Ecsed meant 'younger brother'. The village was made popular by the fortress that once stood there. Both the Báthori and Rákóczi family praised it.

The Municipal Museum first opened on 11 November 1994 in the tarnished national building known as Ispita. In 1997 the Esterházy Palace, where the official residence is at present, was acquired. In 1998 the Margit Kovács and the Miklós Borsos permanent exhibitions were added to our programs in the original edifices. In 1999 we broadened our programs by the Graphics Workshop of Győr, in 2000 the first creative house, in 2004 the second creative house. From 2006 we also make use of the building of the Synagogue together with the university.

Gáspár Noszlopy, commissioner of Somogyi County and later the south of Transdanubia, was born in the cottage in 1849. The building holds the exhibition titled 'Somogy in the Reformation Age and at the Time of the War of Independence of 1848-49'.

If we wish to study the appearance of Cubism then we must visit the permanent exhibition presenting the oeuvre of János Kmetty in Szentendre. János Kmetty (1889-1975) is one of the artist who was involved in nationalizing the French Cubism in Hungarian fine art.