Only 52 villages survived the Ottoman rule, besides larger towns in Pest and Pilis County. The count Péter Zichy invited Catholic German families in 1723 to settle in the region to take the places of Calvinist Hungarian families whose number lessened considerably during Ottoman Hungary.

The Lajos Abonyi Village museum of Abony was founded in 1959. Eight years passed by the time the Mayor's office could provide a building for the collection, which was first presented on 18, November, 1967. Our aim was to show the tools of the trades along with the tools of the farming of the homesteads that are continuously dying out. We wished to honor over half a thousand beautiful homesteads and the assiduity of the families living there.

The György Klapka Museum of Komárom was founded in 1966. Its manager was László Kecskés. Beside the permanent exhibition presenting the Roman findings several temporary shows are also held here where exhibitions of fine- and applied art, local history, and ethnographic material is presented. The most famous pieces of the museum are also shown here.

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.

The exact date of the settlement of the Jews in Sopron is unknown. However, we know that in the 13th century about 10 to 16 families lived in the New street (former Jewish street). Their street canot be called as a getto, because several Christian families lived here as well. Although the Jews who lived here were not really rich people, at the beginning of the 14th century they somehow managed to build this gothic synagoge unique to the whole of Central Europe.

Since the birth of the Hungarian state (1000 A.D.) the city of Székesfehérvár, the Hungarian royal coronation and burial place had been one of the country's most important sacred centres. Saint Stephen (1000-1038) the first king of Hungary founded a privileged and independent priest association called the chapter of Székesfehérvár however the city did not have a bishop. The chapter was the guardian of the royal treasury and also the most important organisation of the state administration.

The Wood Carver Gallery is situated in the Castle Garden. It was originally built to store stones but later was reconstructed to hold exhibitions. It opened in 1996 presenting wood carvings, wood artworks and folk sculptures. The gallery holds an unequalled display in the country.