Until the last decades, fishing was very important in the life of the town. The anglers lived in an area called 'inner town'. The sailors of the Tisza, ship builders, and the construction laborers who owned no land or only a small vineyard also lived there.

The village hall was the headquarters of the delegates and leadership. Usually it was built in the middle of the village, close to the church. The village hall of Tömörkény built in 1895-96 was moved over to the open air collection. The eclectic building was partly built in the Classicist style characteristic at the end of the 19th century. By this building, the skanzen has a more county town quality.

The monastery of the Benedictines with the church attached to it was one of the most significant buildings of Hungary in the Middle Ages. The rulers of the world, the members of the Bór-Kalán clan, bare important offices at the royal court and the temple. The monastery was destroyed at the time of the Turkish expansion, but the ruins of the church still stood in the 19th century.