A Közlekedési Múzeum Évkönyve 13. 2001-2002 (2003)

IV. RÉSZ • A Közlekedési Múzeum gyűjteményeiből 365 - Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló a Közlekedési Múzeum XIII. Évkönyvéhez (magyar, angol, német nyelven) 385

Pál Hüttl Preliminary Announcements And Brief Summary Of Content To The 13th Year-Book Of The Transport Museum The doors of the Transport Museum have been opened for the public in 1899, following its establishment in 1896. The collection of the Museum was significant already by the time of the opening, but it increased steadily during the years. The Museum was very popular and much frequented. The 2nd World War caused the building and the collections significant damages. After eliminating the war demages the Museum opened its doors for the visitors in a new organizational form again on the 2nd April 2966. As result of the zeal and vocation of the members of the Museum and of the reorganization of the research and elaboration works of transport history the number of scientific collections grew continuously. This made necessary in the 1970s and 1980s the expansion of the central building by a new wing, the arrangement of the story part of the Petőfi Hall to accomodate the aeronautical permanent exhibition and the establishment of the store basis, the archives and the restorer-workshop in the Tatai street. The ground-floor passage between the old and the new wings of the Museum has been completed in 2001. Out of its connecting function the new passage contains a representative exhibition space, too, which is called as the "Hall of notabilities". The outstanding works of the Hungarian transport history are accommodated in this exhibition space. The professional thoroughness and the high-level aesthetic representation of the permanent exhibitions and that of the temporary exhibitions organized in a growing number lured hundered thousands of visitors into the Museum. About these results report the Year-Books issued 2-3 yearly - i.e. in 1974, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1994, 1996, 1999 and 2001 following the publication of the first Year-Book in 1971. In part I of this Year-Book dr.András Katona director-general reports on the works rendered by the Transport Museum in 2001 and 2002. In part II we provide a selection from the history of the Museum's collections. In part III studies concerning transport history and methodology are published. In part IV we render account of the reconstruction of a motor vehicle being a museum piece. Information is provided about the internet services of the Museum. We publish the names of the employees of the Museum in the time période concerned. Part I. Introduction Dr. András Katonai The Activity Of The Transport Museum In The Years Of 2001-2002. The directorgeneral informs in the introduction of his study that on the basis of the results in the year 2000 the Pulszky Society - Hungarian Museum Association awarded the special prize of the competition "The Museum of the year" to the institution. Beside the recognition of the professional activity this prize is owing to the fact too, that in 2000 the exhibitions had more than 300.000 visitors. The work of the years 2001-2002 was characterized by keeping the level achieved in the previous years, 394