The present site of the Imre Varga Collection was opened in 1983 in a heritage building, a neoclassical peasant-bourgeois house from the 1st half of the 19th century. Prior to the fall of the communist regime, Imre Varga was a favourite artist of the partly leadership and the cultural politics of the era. Between 1980 and 1990, he served as a member of parliament, he was vice president of the Patriotic People’s Front and president of the Fészek Artist’s Club. This explains the fact how a showroom with his works could be opened already during his lifetime, in the 1980s. The owner of the collection is the Hungarian state, its trustee is the BHM Budapest Gallery.