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The Hungarian Institute of Film Science was founded in 1957, based on the plan drafted by Béla Balázs in 1948. Its name was changed to the Hungarian Film Institute in 1985. In 2000, the name was changed again to the Hungarian National Film Archive. Since 2011, it has been integrated into the Hungarian National Digital Archive and Film Institute (MaNDA). In 2017, it became part of the Hungarian National Film Fund. The Archive has the most extensive film collection in Hungary, approximately 64,000 inventory items.

The Madona Museum of Local History and Art was founded in September 1944, when the Madona district Communist Party first secretary Ieva Pliesmane supported the initiative by Elza Rudenāja (1911-1998) to establish a museum. Before the Second World War, Rudenāja had studied history at the University of Latvia, she was particularly interested in archaeology, and had some experience of museum work. The basis for the museum was the remnants of the collection of the Cesvaine school museum, but they were badly plundered during the hostilities. The energetic and determined Rudenāja asked for the support of the local population and officials to get more artefacts for the museum’s collection, and the response was great. In 1945, Pliesmane was removed from her post for being too soft on kulaks and other elements thought to be unreliable by the Soviet regime. Her successors were not interested in the museum, and it was constantly harassed by the local authorities and by state security until the mid-1960s, especially because Rudenāja employed several people who were victims of Soviet repression (Vladislavs Urtāns was one of them). Nevertheless, the museum survived, and became one of the best local history museums in Latvia. Although Rudenāja was not a Party member (she declined offers of membership several times on different pretexts), her social skills and her good relations with officials at the Ministry of Culture and with many cultural personalities helped her to retain her position and to improve the museum’s reputation. From the mid-1950s, several memorial museums to writers and other cultural personalities were established in the Madona region, and these museums became branches of the Madona Museum. From the mid-1960s, the attitude of local officials towards the museum improved, and it received more support from the local authorities, especially after 1970, when Leo Bērziņš became the first secretary of the district Party committee. In the 1960s, painters with their roots in the Madona region started to donate works to the museum, and in later decades a noteworthy visual art collection was established. In 1984, a new exhibition hall was built in order to properly display the museum's collections. In 1990, Rudenāja fell seriously ill, and Līvija Zepa took over her post. In 1997, Elza Rudenāja was awarded the Order of Three Stars for her unique endeavors. Under the Soviet regime, the museum came under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture and was funded by the state. In the 1990s, like other local museums, the Madona Museum of Local History and Art was handed over to the local government. The museum is involved in various activities and projects. It was established by Rudenāja with a clear purpose: to preserve the cultural riches of the Madona region, in order to maintain the local and national identity, and this aim did not diminish in later decades, despite pressure from the Soviet authorities.

The Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum, which acquires, holds and exhibits items relating to the history of Lithuanian literature, is one of the main institutions concerned with Lithuanian literature. The museum is in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second city. It was founded in 1936 on the fourth anniversary of Maironis’ death. Today, the collection of the Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum comprises 218,000 exhibits. They embrace all periods of Lithuanian literature, from Martynas Mazvydas’ first book to contemporary writing. The collection increases every year by about 6,000 pieces. The general public can learn about it in exhibitions prepared for writers’ anniversaries or important literary events.

Every year, the Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum holds between 40 and 50 exhibitions.

Matica hrvatska (MH) is an independent, non-profit and non-governmental association founded as a society for the promotion of Croatian culture. Due to its rich activity and long life it has become a national institution. As a cultural institution of the Croatian people, it emerged within the framework of the Croatian National Revival in 1842 under the name Matica ilirska. Although originally founded as a publishing house within the Illyrian Reading Room, in the 1850s it became a literary and academic society with the task of promoting cultural, literary, economic, and political goals of the young, nationally aware generation of Croatian citizenship. In 1874 it changed its name to Matica hrvatska.

Matica hrvatska was the most representative Croatian publisher, and has also left an indelible mark on Croatian history to date, participating in its many turbulent events. In monarchist Yugoslavia, it opposed, in the cultural sphere, the state centralism and unitarism of the ruling dynasty. In the first half of the 1930s, Matica became the centre of the Croatian cultural and political opposition, gathering not only nationally oriented authors but also left-wing writers like Miroslav Krleža and Augusta Cesarac as well. In the second half of the 1930s, Matica became the central institution of the Croatian national intelligentsia and soon came into conflict with the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS), the strongest political party in Croatia. After the creation of the Croatian Banovina (in 1939), the authorities led by the HSS imposed the Commission (Komisarijat) in Matica hrvatska in 1941 - a forced administrative measure aimed at supressing political opposition in Croatian Banovina (Aralica 2009). After the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), Matica was declared a state institution with a privileged position in the sphere of culture.

After the Second World War, MH continued to work mainly in publishing, which was intensified especially after the establishment of its publishing house in 1960. Although it was funded by the state, and even had its own communist party organization, it began playing an oppositional role in its cultural activity at the time, which led to repression against it and finally to its dissolution. From 1967, when it encouraged the adoption of the Declaration on the Name and Status of the Croatian Literary Language, Matica hrvatska became a mass organization that penetrated into all branches of Croatian society with the aim of raising the national consciousness of Croatian citizens. By organizing various lectures and forums, and most notably through its publications, especially the newspaper Hrvatski tjednik, Matica hrvatska became the central Croatian cultural institution in the Croatian Spring. It became a gathering point of Croatian intelligentsia that was dissatisfied with the position of Croatia within the Yugoslav federation and especially with the treatment of Croatian national identity by the federal authorities. For this reason, the communist government began to see at it as the driver of oppositional political ideas. By the fall of the Croatian Spring in 1972, many of its prominent members were subjected to state repression under accusations of "Croatian nationalism," such as Vlado Gotovac, the editor-in-chief of Hrvatski tjednik who was sentenced to four years in prison. Because of the government's attack on Matica, its board of directors and executive board tendered their collective resignations in 1972. Although Matica hrvatska was not officially abolished, it practically stopped working in that year.

After the fall of communist rule in Croatia, MH renewed its activities and expanded it by establishing its branches throughout Croatia (98 branches), but also in other countries where the Croatian people live: Austria (1), Belgium (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (13), Germany (3), Hungary (3), Montenegro (1), Serbia (1) and Slovenia (1). MH still stands out for its productive publishing activity, publishing numerous books and three periodicals (Vijenac, Hrvatska revija and Kolo). It also organises various cultural, social and scholarly events on a regular basis (presenting books, organising scientific conferences, lectures, and concerts of classical music). Matica hrvatska regularly commemorates the legacy of the cultural opposition from the time of socialism, mostly the phenomenon of the Croatian Spring, which is also visible from the gatherings it organizes (see for example Zidić 2017) and the publications that it publishes (e.g. the series "Sources for the History of Matica hrvatska").