A Közlekedési Múzeum Évkönyve 10. 1896-1996 (1996)

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till our Days" that in 1996, when he has been appointed to Director-general, he regarded the further development of the institution as feasible only by improving the systematization of the management activities, by a strict staff and wage economy and by reduction of the number of units in the Museum. Consequently it was necessary to seek for and to find those forms and areas, which made possible to replace the sources and energy being not at the disposal of the Museum any more. The Director-general declares in the further part of his paper the fundamental principles of managing the institution. As a basis of a successful activity in the Museum he regards the collection, the preservation and the proper proportions of intermediating.He indicates that opinions changing as a result of the external circumstances have a decisive effect on the collection and the demonstration. All the changes meaning permanent tasks, too, determine those management and professional trends, which he has to follow. In interest of this the goal is to increase the number of models, which can be operated and furthermore the extension of the stock of computing technique instruments and of interactive playful devices. In the same time the task is the teaching and education of the visitors and the demonstration of the national values. Following that, applying expressive diagrams he demonstrates the results of the representative surveys carried out in interest to learn the visitors' habits and to strenghten and widen the relation between the Museum and the visitors. He reports on the conditions and possibilities of functioning of the Museum. The tight provision from the budget meets basically the cost of operation and staff only, for the scientific researches and the enlargement of the collection remains a decreasing proportion. He gives information about the development of staff, the seasonal exhibitions arranged in the last five years in Hungary and abroad and about the development of international relations. Information is provided about those large scale investment and renowal works, which have been carried out since 1990. As a result of these works the Transport Museum became an institution of European rank. Concluding his paper he outlines the future picture of the Transport Museum and those challenges, tasks to which it is necessary to come up on the fields of science, technics, economy and staff management. Part II. The Formation and Development of the Collection of the Transport Museum Prof.Dr.Béla Czére reports in his paper "The History of Development of the Collections of the Museum" on that significant development of the railway network and the industry, which had become possible as a result of the Compromise of 1867. He regards it as a direct consequence of this that in the largest extent the railway objects were represented on the millenium transport exhibition in 1896 and later in the collection of the Transport Museum. He continues with the demonstration of the brief development history of the collections concerning highway traffic, urban traffic and air traffic. Furthermore he demonstrates the historical formation and growth of the collections and the first steps of the scientific research work after World War II. László Szabó reports in his paper "Road and Bridge Collection" that a lot of road and bridge structures (models of bridges, material samples from road and bridge construction, maps of municipal public roads) had been demonstrated on the millenium exhibition already, but as an individual branch of collection it exists since 1969 only. To enable the manageability and workability of the material available as a result of the collection program far-reaching in both professional and chronological respect, a system of thematic groups 377