In a small Hungarian town Erd that is just 20 kilometers from Budapest, located in the beautiful castle Wimpfen Classicist Hungarian dukes built in the middle of the XIX century. The castle is not particularly popular among travelers as a landmark, but it is very famous as the main Hungarian Geographical Museum. Here you can find valuable historical documents of the Hungarian research geologists and geographers, trophies, brought them from exotic countries, and unique paleontological exhibits.

Castle Vimffena originates from prosaic coaching inn with an exotic name "Pelican", who built Duke Batthyány-Strattman. This unusual name institution has received thanks to the image on Batthyány family coat of arms. Emblem pelican hung directly above the entrance door to the inn. A few years later - in 1844 - "Pelican" into the hands of Count Wimpfen, who decides to rebuild a conventional building in a beautiful castle in the classical style. Desire graph builders performed in just a few years since Count's estate and the adjoining garden was called "Castle Wimpfen."

The first permanent exhibition, which started the history of the castle as Vimffena Geographic Museum, opened in the autumn of 1983 on the initiative of Balazs Densa. Several years of preparatory work of employees of the Hungarian Geographical Society brought the first fruits: the exhibition "Hungarian travelers and their voyages of discovery" opens its doors to the first visitors. Official financing of the project is only partially cover the costs of establishing exposure, so the first museum collection is created including the donations of ordinary citizens.

In 1985 the castle was finally Wimpfen handed over to the museum, and historians begin dense work on the next show. In 1888 they were able to present another permanent exhibition: "Study of the Carpathian Basin", which were collected geological, geographical, botanical and paleontological investigations of Hungarian scientists. A little later in the garden of the museum there are several statues in memory of the famous Hungarian traveler Laszlo Almasy, Semyuila Teleki, etc. Gradually formed a pantheon of sculptures, which is now part of the permanent exhibition.

Later in the museum part of the building has been allocated under the organization of public scientific and geographical library, which now has more than 8,000 books and is loved by Hungarian students and researchers.

Now the count's residence are two permanent exposition "Hungarian travelers and their voyages of discovery" and "Research of the Carpathian Basin." In addition to this museum is full of interesting exhibits, presented by researchers medieval Asia. For example, the relics of Tibetology Kerege Chomy father, who created the first Tibetan-English dictionary. Or materials of the Sahara expedition Laszlo Almasy.