Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1993
Kiállítási emlékezések - Angol nyelvű összefoglalók
Summary in English Foreword p. 3 Dear Reader, It is a great pleasure to me to recommend again the Yearbook of the Foundation of the Postal and Telecommunications Museum, most of all for the evidence it brings of the continuity, renewal and development of the work begun by the Postal Museum in 1890 and the Stamp Museum in 1921. Nor is there less cause for satisfaction in the Foundation’s ability, as custodian of our common professional heritage, to invite its founder groups to a growing number of increasingly varied events, ranging, in the Tivadar Puskás centenary year, from museum concerts and telecom May celebrations at Lakihegy to a secondary- school students’ contest. We can still only dream of one day bringing our long-established, but constricted museums under one roof, but their present ability to display representative collections of the various branches at eight different venues also contributes to the social prestige of the founders. The new chapter in the history of the Radio and Television Museum building at Diósd that opened during the year is the Foundation’s biggest venture so far. Our supporters within the profession must also be gratified by the draft regulation providing for administrative retention of all museum relics and objects and documents of value to contemporary history. The importance of this has been shown by the joint 1993 decision of the Sopron directorates of Matáv and the Post Office to establish a postal and telecommunications collection in Sopron. We hope the yearbook, now in printed form, will thereby prove a worthier vehicle for its contents. We send for your bookshelf this fourth edition in the hope that you will act as an honorary museum curator, on whom we can count to help expand the collection by gathering and donating objects and documents for the museums. István Kurucz Chairman of the Board of Trustees Foundation of the Postal and Telecommunications Museum 133
