A Közlekedési Múzeum Évkönyve 14. 2003-2004 (2005)

IV. RÉSZ • A Közlekedési Múzeum gyűjteményeiből 265 - Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló a Közlekedési Múzeum XIV. Évkönyvéhez (magyar, angol, német nyelven) 294

ties beside the museologists. The museums of our days pay a great attention to the entertainment of the children. Today has every museum an entertainment and educational programme for young people. The changes are influencing the way of demonstration, too. The museums do everything that their exhibitions and programmes should win the approval of the visitors. The designing of exhibitions is a trade, consequently professional designers, interior designers or occassionally museum designing offices are requested to carry out this job. As a result it can be concluded that the museums of today have to come up to the entertainment requirements of the society in addition to satisfy the cultural requirements. The director-general reports in the yearly detailed summaries about the exhibitions organized in the year concerned, the results of the scientific work, the increase of the collections, the widening of the computerized recording and about the economic management of the institution. Furthermore he informs about the utilisation of the sums won as prizes of competitions. As a result of accessibility of the Museum by Internet the relationship with the press and the associate institutions has been strenghtened. In the information about the technical tasks the director-general gives account of the activities concerning building of exhibitions, restoration and operation. The director-general demonstrates in the appendix the development of the number of visitors, the temporary exhibitions, and the increase of the collections and the inventory stock of the archives and the documentation department. Part II The History Of The Collections Of The Transport Museum Jenő Cselényi, Dr. Mihály Krámli: The Class 411 Steam Locomotive And Its Technical Drawing Collection. In the store of railway drawings of the Transport Museum the drawings of the American made legendary steam locomotives with the fabric number S-160 and with the Hungarian nickname Truman constitute a special group. The construction of these locomotives was necessiated by the entry of the USA into the 2nd World War and the warfare of the American army in Europe. The American locomotive works Alco, Baldwin and Limo built between 1942 and 1944 2121 locomotives for the army. These standard gauge locomotives came up to the requirements excellently even in the difficult war time. After the war the locomotives had been deposed in Belgium, thereafter in 1946 they were taken over by UN RA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Association) and by that it was commenced their application for peaceful purposes. Those countries might lay claim to the locomotives in the form of aid or procurement, which lost the greatest number of locomotives during the war. To replace the locomotives destroyed or taken away as spoils of war the MÁV procured in 1947 510 steam locomotives under very favourable financial conditions and put them into service with the class number 411. This was the all-time largest locomotive series of MÁV. The locomotives rendered a good service both in passenger and freight traffic including shunting till the end of 1980. The Authors summed up in their study the knowledge resulting from their researches and demonstrated pictures and drawings from the drawing collection. Three protected original units from the locomotives have been preserved, two of them are in the possession of MÁV from which one can be seen in the Railway History Park and one is owned by the Transport Museum and exhibited at the railway station Hegyeshalom. Gábor Balogh: The Catalogue Of The Maps Of The Transport Museum (from the middle of the 16th century till the end of the 19th century). The branch of science connected functionally with the transport science is the transport geography, which can be illustrated by maps. In the map collection of the archives 304