Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1995
Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló angol nyelven
Staff of the Stamp Museum viewed the Ryan collection, put up for auction in Vienna. They then made a proposal to the State Printing Press for the archive materials to be purchased and presented to our collection as a donation. Financial results The Foundation ran its finances in line with the financial plan adopted for 1995. A detailed report containing the likely expenditure in 1995 and the budget for 1996 was submitted to the founders on November 20. The Foundation suffered no liquidity problems and the audit revealed no shortcomings. Budapest, December 1995 * István Kurucz: An Expression of Thanks, in Place of a Foreword The two new exhibition areas were gained by the Foundation’s museums during 1995. It emerged again what a great number of helpers and supporters the Foundation has gained in the profession. To coincide with the 75 th anniversary of the foundation of Debrecen Postal Directorate, the Diligence Exhibition Hall (Delizsánsz Kíállítóterem) reopened in new, better surroundings after a break of four years. It contains a memorial room to the Kossuth Prize-winning botanist Dr Rezső Soó, a great philatelist and benefactor, and a display of 600 years of postal and 150 years of telecommunications history in Debrecen. Dr Károly Lotz, Minister of Transport, Telecommunications and Water Management, opened the permanent exhibition at the Diósd Radio and Television Museum on December 1, 1995, marking the centenary of the discovery of radio and the 70th anniversary of public broadcasting in Hungary. The several hundred people who attended the opening walked round the memorial park to the outstanding scientists and engineers of Hungarian radio and television. They felt the Foundation had paid a debt owed by the whole profession to the fading memory of our forebears. The return of the scientific bequest and experimental equipment of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and acoustic postal engineer Dr György Békésy, as a gift from the University of Hawaii, can be seen a milestone. The two Békésy memorial rooms at Diósd present this bequest and an account of his life and work. I am sure the two new institutions will promote the public good, education, training and knowledge. This they will do by presenting the activity of our exemplary predecessors and founder societies as factors contributing to society’s development in their time. Several hundred staff at the Foundation’s museums helped in these achievements. Let me thank all the scientists, engineers, researchers, museum staff, technicians, pensioners, designers and constructors, at home and abroad, who contributed recollections, erudition and knowledge, treasured donated relics and meticulous work, to establishing the Diligence Exhibition Hall and the Radio and Television Museum. 291
