The Museum belongs to Centre for Farm Animal Gene Conservation.The building was completed in 1983 for the 29th Apimondia Congress. Its structure symbolizes three cells while the entrance door and roof give an impression of a straw skep.

The building was a typical example of the farming houses at the end of the 19th century. It was built of unburnt brick; the roofing was made of wood shipped down the Kőrös, and was covered with cane. The setting followed the room-kitchen-room-inner chamber pattern. The wide frontage faced the street.

The idea of opening a Local History Collection came in 1995 documented by Mr. József Kapás. Collecting of machines used by the ancestors of the village dwellers began around the village. The building to host the collection was provided by the self-government that also undertook the maintenance of the collection.

Miklós Káplár is the painter of the true visage of the Hortobágy. He continued his studies in the Academy of Fine Arts and with the help of József Rippl-Rónai. In the Miklós Káplár Museum besides an early self-portrait and shepherds' portraits, the best works of the 1930's, that is his low-horizoned plain-landscapes are the most outstanding pieces of the exhibition.

The stove-setter Antal Fruhmann (1908-1987) of Győr left his house and workshop in his will to the Xántus János Museum. A new exhibition pavilion was set up on the estate where the stove collection of the museum is shown. The workshop is shown as it is while the house is the home of the exhibition presenting the history of stove-setting in the town of Győr. The set of three exhibitions is an unparalleled collection of stove-setting in Hungary.

This house was the flat of a farmer having own property and horses - from the first half of the 20th century. In Átány the house is known as Kakas-house, for its former owner Samu Kakas lived and died in it. According to the master beam, the house was first built for József Bedécs in 1856. Later Imre Bedécs purchased (and partly inherited) the house. His daughter Zsuzsa married to Samu Kakas in 1920. Samu Kakas belonged to the poorer line of the famous Kakas family.

The small castle that hosts the museum was built for the district administrator in 1896. After 1945, it served as the club of the army, as flat for officers and later as school. In 2000, the Self-government gave over the castle to the Town Guardian Association so that they can open a Local Compilation in it.