The house was built in the 19th centuary. Its name was given after its blackened walls. The house made an important role in the political and literary life of the town. The exhibitions were opened here in 1985 - after a thorough renovation work of the building. At present a social historical permanent exhibition is held here is, but the hall sometimes offers temporal exhibitions as well, mostly in the fields of applied arts, history and literature.

EMLÉKPONT (Remembrance Point) may be the first museum in Europe to utilize the history of a town, the reflections of the local people about their past, for displaying the Communist era between 1945 and 1990 - the period characterized by Soviet occupation and the single-party state.

There is no similar museum in the whole world. It does not display a book historical exhibition or a single antique library hall, but the everyday athmosphere around the librarians and readers between the years 1802 and 1985. It displays items of several Hungarian libraries.

In 1961, six smoky-kitchen house still existed in Dózsa György street. Today, after these were taken down, beautiful mansions stand there. The last owner of the old type of house moved out in 1971. The unoccupied house was about to decay completely. Fortunately, it was bought by the National Nature and Environment Protection Bureau and reconstructed it. In the summer of 1978, when the reconstruction works were almost done, the citizens of the village set a good example.

The largest and most beautiful private collection in Hungary is open from June 1986 in the town of Siófok at 10 Kálmán sétány. The collection that is protected by the state includes almost 3000 minerals. Some of the visitors even return every now and again. They are happy to see that the minerals grow in number year by year.

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.

The Kner Printing Museum has been operating since 1970 in the former house of Imre Kner. The house was built in 1925, according to the sketches of the arhitect and graphic Lajos Kozma, in popular baroque style. The exhibition of the museum show the works of the members of Kner family and the history of the Kner press from its opening of 1882 up to our days.