Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1995
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The year was dominated by the exhibition of radio and television history at Diósd. Collection of materials continued, with visits to radio stations and private collections and purchases from them. So did the renovation and restoration of exhibits. The bequest of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr György Békésy arrived from the University of Hawaii on July 26, for display in the Békésy Memorial Rooms, as a distinct thematic unit in the exhibition. A study trip was made to Berlin, jointly with Antenna Hungária, the main purpose being to visit the Radio Museum and Postal Museum there. As a final official appointment, a visit was paid on the grave of Dénes Mihály and a wreath laid. The culmination of many years’ work came on Friday, December 1 at noon, when Dr Károly Lotz, Minister of Transport, Telecommunications and Water Management opened the Diósd Radio and Television Museum. A new exhibition area of about 70 sq. m, the Diligence Exhibition Hall, opened in the restored building of the Debrecen Postal Directorate. The first exhibition, showing the postal history of Debrecen and the Directorate, was opened on October 11 by Deputy Managing Director Dr Endre Csemák, as one of the events to mark World Postal Day. During the year, three temporary exhibitions were mounted in the end hall of the Postal Museum in Budapest’s Andrássy út. The central attraction in Pál C. Molnár—Sketches, Pictures and Stamps, which opened on April 27 and included paintings on postal themes, were three vast paintings transferred from the Panoráma Hotel. On October 12, an exhibition of graphics by Viola Berki, including designs for greetings telegrams, was opened by the art critic Balázs Feledy. Through the Italian Cultural Institute in Hungary, a travelling exhibition showing Marconi’s life and radio experiments, entitled 1995, International Year of Radio Broadcasting, opened for two weeks on November 3. Several social events took place at the Museum. On March 4, the results of the Hungarian Post PLC’s competition for children’s drawings, Christmas Post, were announced at an exhibition of the entries. On April 27, there was a press presentation of books on broadcasting history published by Ajtósi Dürer Kiadó. On May 6, Dénes Czirók delivered his inaugural lecture, on the history of mail coaches, at the Hungarian Philatelic Scientific Society Salon. On World Telecommunications Day (May 17), the results of the Museum’s competition for nursery, primary and secondary-school pupils, Our Radio, were announced along with activities. On June 14, the Museum hosted a further stamp-design competition by Hungarian Post PLC, Atlanta ’96. Turning to news of the Museum staff, our colleague Sándor Miklós died unexpectedly on June 9. On September 23, Dr Kálmán Sebestyén of the research staff won the Candidacy of Sciences degree of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, for his work on school history. On World Postal Day (October 6), the Museum Librarian, Margit Rákóczi, was presented with third prize in the postal press competition for her journalistic work. Apart from materials of various lengths introducing new exhibitions, the Museum published the Foundation’s Yearbook 1994. The chapter Chronology of Postal History, 1867-1900 was also issued separately. Júlia Kisfaludi: Chronicle of the Postal Museum, 1995 293
