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Történettudomány - Vadász István: A tiszafüredi múzeum újjáalakulása és első évei (1947 - 1955)
TISICUM XXVII. IRODALOM BARABÁS Jenő 1950. Tiszafüredi falumúzeum. In: Ethnographia 1-2.106-108. FÜVESSY Anikó 1982. A tiszafüredi fazekasság a XIX. század végéig. In: Szolnok Megyei Múzeumi Évkönyv. (Szerk.: SELMECZI László) Szolnok. 151-167. 2002a. Szigeti Iván. In: Magyar Múzeumi Arcképcsarnok (Szerk.: ÉLESZTŐS László) Budapest. 850. 2002b. Varga Ferenc. In: Magyar Múzeumi Arcképcsarnok (Szerk.: ÉLESZTŐS László) Budapest. 922-923. GESZLERÖdön 1987. In memoriam Cseh József. In: Honismeret 5.70-71. ORBÁNNÉ SZEGŐ Ágnes 2007. A Tiszafüredi Múzeum- és Könyvtáregylet története 1877- 1949. in: Könyvtári levelező/lap 6.19-26. J. THOMAS Edit 1950. A tiszafüredi első falumúzeum. In: Archaeológiai Értesítő 1. 56-57. VADÁSZ István 2003. Az 1848/49-es szabadságharc tábornoka: Kiss Pál. In: Tiszafüredi Füzetek 3.24. DR. ISTVÁN VADÁSZ THE REFORMATION AND FIRST YEARS OF THE MUSEUM OF TISZAFÜRED (1947-1955) The paper deals with an important period of the museum of Tiszafüred, the nearly decade-long history of the establishment after World War II, which was a decisive period in the life of the museum’s collection as well. In these almost ten years the collection of the museum of Tiszafüred was reformed from operating as a club to work as a government-controlled establishment, when the Museum and Library Club of Tiszafüred, established in 1977, was disbanded and the National Village Museum of Tiszafüred was established. It was a step of great significance, since the collection of the museum and the library had contained 15000 pieces of relics and 9000 volumes before the war, most of which was destroyed or got lost by the end of World War II. Therefore, after 1949, not only the remaining cultural goods needed to be saved and reorganized, but the two types of public education, the functions of the museum and the public library, had to be separated and also their collection materials. In addition, the establishments of museums started to convert to the forming of a system of disciplines fitting the scientific requirements in these years. In the case of the museum of Tiszafüred, this conversion was accompanied by excessive difficulties, since the necessary material, personal and financial conditions were not provided. From the beginning of 1950, the first director of the establishment brought under the government’s control, was Iván Szigeti, a graphic artist and drawing teacher, who held the position part-time until his death in January, 1955. The educator, who got to Tiszafüred in 1939, had to shape the establishment’s financial order of operation during his time as director without any specific previous experience. He had to rebuild the permanent exhibition, which then had to be torn down so that the whole establishment could be relocated. Its new location, after the second half of 1952, became the historic building of the Lipcsey Mansion, which had been previously nationalized. However, the relocation was not only set back by years by the insufficient financial funds, but also by a debate with the machine centre of Tiszafüred, which had previously occupied the building. At the same time, the collection’s organization by disciplines and the cataloguing process had to be started, meanwhile the collection (should have been) made visitable for the wider public. All this was topped by the process of naming the museum, which took place with unmatched twists, containing almost comic elements in Tiszafüred in April and May, 1954By the end of the period examined here, there were improvements in basically every area, but these were far behind the possibilities, expectations and the importance of the case of the museum of Tiszafüred. We can make out from the documents that the educator, who almost accidentally got in contact with the museum in the first place, was left alone by the end of the period. In all probability, after having to deal with these amassed unsolved problems, he was relieved to accept the decision of the faraway authority, the Department of Museums of the Ministry of Public Education, that released him on January 12,1955. This could be interpreted as the end of an era, if we were not familiar with the establishment’s next one-one and a half decade. But this can be the subject of another analysis. 222
