Founded by the Kolcsey circle, the museum is reorganized between 1950 and 1951, on the basis of old collections and new researches. The museum exhibits collections of history (guild materials, tools, chests, seals, documents, rare books); archaeology (prehistory, Dacians, mediaeval); ethnography (peasant installations, German and Hungarian furniture, ornaments, glass and wood icons).
The museum owns goods listed in the National Cultural Heritage Treasure.