Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 102. (Budapest 2010)
Matskási, I.: Annual review 2009
284 I. Matskási Our results have been published in the museum's five periodicals (Annales bistorico-natiirales Musei nationalis bungarici, Acta zoologica Academiae scientiarum hungaricae, Folia entomologica bungarica, Studia botanica bungarica , Fragmenta palaeontologica bungarica ) and other Hungarian and international journals. Information Technology and Library In 2009 the website of the museum www.nhmus.hu was visited by 377,225 people, viewing 1,811,632 pages altogether. The size of downloaded material was more than 700 GB. We continued to enter the collection material data into databases. In this sense, the Department of Anthropology was the most efficient, all the collections of which are now organized in their database. Other departments succeeded in recording 75% of their registered material (156,000 items). The digital catalogs of three of our periodicals were finished last year (Annales bistorico-natiirales Musei nationalis bungarici , Miscellanea zoologica , Fragmenta Palaeontologica ). 4,000 of the 20,000-piece photography collection are available through the Hungarian Digital Image Library. The development of metadata structures and digitization were supported by grants from the Hungarian Digital Image Library, STERNA and Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). The library registered 3,744 volumes of books and periodicals in 2009. The most important source of increase was international exchange. The museum has 1,055 exchange partners, 943 foreign and 112 Hungarian. Education In 2009 192,250 visitors attended the exhibitions of the museum. We presented 5 permanent, 12 temporary and 4 traveling exhibitions. Especially successful were the temporary exhibitions Predators, Expedition to the Green Island of Butterflies and the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009. The program Museum Nights with 7,620 visitors and the Autumn Museum Nights with 4,876 visitors were particularly popular and successful. We appeared with educational programs-in other venues at events like Museum Mayfair, Birds and Trees' Day, Animals' Week. Our science fair events Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 102, 2010
