Since the Madách Memorial Museum is the only one of the kind in Hungary, the exhibition involves many different purposes: it traces back the history of the Madách-family, recalls the era and gives a wide-range picture of the life and art of Imre Madách. The artwork - The tragedy of man - is in the center of all this. The exhibition represents the significance of the poem in the world literature and displays some artworks inspired by the poem. The exhibiton follows up the theatrical history of the poem in chronological order. It also refers to the opera and puppet performances and their foreign equivalents.