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

V. RÉSZ • A Közlekedési Múzeum filiáléi 317 - Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló, előzetes közlemények (magyar, angol, német nyelven) 363

Dr.Zsuzsa Frisnyák refers in her paper "The Railway Collection" to the fact that the greatest and oldest collection of the Museum is the railway collection. The institution was managed for a long time by the MÁV, and even the leaders of the Museum came from the MÁV. The first inventory registration of the railway objects was prepared in 1903, the Board of Supervision of the Museum decided to enlarge the collection. The Author presents the system of collection enlargement in the time before 1944 and she mentions as one of the interessant features of this system that not the original vehicles were collected, but instead of them models were built. Following that she demonstrates the points of view of the collection enlargement in our days, according which the objects demonstrating the circumstances of traveling (as for example the ticket boxes, seats, passenger information facilities) are treated with special importance. From the 1970s the Museum acquired original steam locomotives, which have been renewed in the workshops of MÁV and put on display on larger stations. Unfortunately the preservation of these vehicles is not ensured, their technical condition is deteriorating year-by-year. But there are old vehicles, too, which are in regular service in interest of the foreign tourist traffic. In the further part of the paper she reports on the relation between the MÁV Committee of History and the Museum. She mentions briefly the open-air museum of narrow gauge locomotives in Nagycenk and the Railway Museum in Paks (more about this subject is contained by the second paper of our Annual). She gives account of the arrangements, which were made in the last 20 years concerning the standard gauge railway vehicle open-air museum in Ószolnok. Discussed is the M = 1:5 scale model collection of world fame and the situation concerning stores. Finally she draws attention to several exhibitions being related to railway subjects of greater importance, emphasizing the new permanent exhibition arranged for the 150st anniversary of the Hungarian railway. Miklós Merczy: "Collection of Urban Traffic". Objects demonstrating the urban traffic were included already in the list issued by the Hungarian Royal Transport Museum in 1910. The progress of enlargement of the collection was slow in the 1930s. As a consequence of the devastations in World War II the collection suffered great demages. More organised collection activity started in the 1950s and the collection became an independent branch in 1968, when a new system of registration and inventory cards has been introduced. Owing to the good relations with the transport companies, the original vehicles were admitted into the collection of the Museum after their scrapping. Great stress was laid upon the preparation of models replacing the model collection destroyed during the World War. Models were prepared of those vehicles too, which couldn't be exhibited in their original form. Problem was the selection of the scale, but in case of vehicles the scale of M - 1:25 was decided. For the systematized and detailed demonstration of the urban traffic presented itself an opportunity in the "Underground Railway Museum" at the Deák square, Budapest, opened on the 28th October 1976 (more details see in an other paper in our Annual), and in the new wing of the building of the Transport Museum opened on the 3rd Juny 1987. As the result of many years of organisatory work in 1992 the BKV (Budapest Transport Company) Museum of Urban Masstransport was opened in Szentendre, where a number of original vehicles can be seen in renewed condition. Dr.József Biro writes in his paper "100 Years of the Shipping Collection" that the basis of the shipping collection of the Museum was the material of the shipping exhibition organised on the 379