The Applied Folk Arts Section supervises the Museum of Applied Hungarian Folk Art. The museum has a collection of approximately 10000 items: the majority of the collection consists of textiles, embroideries, wood- and bone carvings and products of folk pottery.

At the time of its founding the institute was responsible for the organisational, research-development, nation-bondarial and data-archiving tasks of the Geodesy sector. However, its sphere of responsibilities further extended between 1970 and 1997. From the year 1999 a permanent exhibition was gradually established about the history of the discipline.

We had hoped to create a country house for a long time for the members of the community. At the time of the majoring of Mrs. Sófalvi Tamás Márta in 1993, the endeavor was successful. The house belonged to the peasant Vitéz Tamás Gábor. After his death, the self-government received leave from the president Zongor Gábor to buy the building along with its furnishing.

Ibafa is a nice little village in Baranya County, hiding in the valleys of Zselic, north-east of Szigetvár. It was first mentioned in a document in 1425. After Szigetvár fell, the village of Ibafa emptied. In the middle of the 1700s, Croatians and later Germans arrived to settle in the village. The Catholic church that is an attraction of the village nowadays was built in 1865. The fame of the village came from the local parson's interest in pipes.

The STRAW-TREASURY is presented among ideal circumstances in one of the houses in the village. The exhibition organized fulfilling scientific requires presents the variability of the objects made of straw. It summarizes all the processes by which we can make tools and decorations of straw. We also present the tools and equipments used at the processes.

Gyula Gosztonyi, architect-archaeologist initiated the exploration of the Cella Septichora Early Christian burial structure as early as the beginning of the 20th century. It was also his idea that the burial chambers should be connected under the ground and opened to the public. The grant of 1.5 billion HUF obtained from the Operative Programme of Regional Development for the implementation of the project 'World Heritage in Pécs, Enhancement of its Touristic Appeal' between 2004 and 2006, enabled us to realize that dream.