Endevours to collect regional ethnographic materials were made as early as in the 1960'ies. However, because of lack of appropriate exhibition space these objects got lost or destroyed. In the 1980-ies a new eight-roomed school was built, so the late baroque building of the summer residency of the bishops - which was at the time used as a school - were thus released. The government gave supports for the renovation of the old rectory.