The house was built in the Romantic style in the 19th century and originally served as the tax office. The mansion of the Ghyczy family once stood on the site, and the member of parliament and minister of finance Kálmán Ghyczy was born there.
In October 2009 the museum’s picture gallery was opened, housing the most beautiful and valuable works of art from the museum’s collection from the beginning of the 18th to the mid-20th century. Among them, special mention should be made of one of the oldest paintings in the museum collection, the Votive Painting of the Komárno Magistrate by an unknown author, painted in 1705. Another jewel of the collection is a Madonna with Child from around 1730. The exhibition also features a precious lead sculptural group by the renowned Austrian Baroque sculptor Franz Xaver Seegen, Christ Crucified with Mary Magdalene, created in 1768. The portraits from the 18th and 19th centuries are remarkable. The first decades of the last century are represented by works of Hungarian and Slovak painters.
In the gallery there is a separate room dedicated to a major representative of late-19th-century Hungarian painting, Árpád Feszty. Feszty was born in 1856 in nearby Hurbanovo and died in 1914 in Lovran (Croatia). He painted works on historical themes, landscapes, and portraits.
The museum also houses a permanent natural-history exhibition on the animals living in the Danube region.