Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1995
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Photography category at this year’s Hungarian Photography Biennial. Mrs Gergely Kovács, Museum Curator and cultural historian, was awarded the Pro Natura Prize by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Territorial Development. Several of the museum’s qualified staff received recognition for the work in mounting museums and running competitions. The Stamp Museum’s Kossuth Memorial Exhibition won a plaque from the Hungarian Institute in Rome. The Hungarian material sent to the Sports and Olympics exhibition in Lausanne received a Prix Olimpia silver medal. Educational work and public relations As a contribution to marking the world days, we announced on Telecommunications Day the results of the schools’ competition for school students entitled Our Radio, and timed the opening of the Diligence Exhibition Room in Debrecen for World Postal Day. Entries for the competition to mark the centenary of radio and the 70th anniversary of Hungarian radio broadcasting were received from 107 nursery, primary and secondary schools. All our founders took part in the awards, by supplying members of the jury, and by joining museum staff for the cheerful prize-giving ceremony in the company of 120 winning children. The Foundation’s museums received 75,000 visitors in 1975. Judging by the comments in the visitors’ books, there was the greatest appreciation for the content and presentation of the exhibitions, and for the cordiality of the guided tours. The visitor total does not include those who saw the Postal Museum in the National Historical Memorial Park at Opusztaszer, where the only records are the entries in the visitors’ book, which came to almost 50,000 during the year. Great support for our public relations came from the reports on our museums and exhibitions that appeared in newspapers and on radio and television, and through the joint events with the organizations Mafitt (Hungarian Philatelic’s Scientific Society), Mabeosz and the HTE (Telecommunications Scientific Society). International relations Our museums were represented in 1995 at the general assemblies of the MUT (Mitteleuropäische Union für Technische Museen) and the LATM (International Association of Transport and Communications Museums). We paid a visit to our partner museums in Berlin. Our guests included the curator of the French telecommunications museum, who proposed cooperation between our Telephone Museum and the Pleumeur Bodou Telecommunications Museum. This began in November, with exchanges of fax messages between school students visiting the two museums. The exhibition at the Diösd Museum includes apparatus on which visitors can hear the call signs, morning greetings and a song sung by children, supplied by 58 national radio stations, received after an extensive mailing. We intend to continue collecting such material from around the world. 290
