Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1996
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• Apart from exhibition scripts and the descriptive materials and programme reconstructions included in the Opusztaszer information system, several staff members published articles and studies in professional journals and other periodicals. • Sizeable numbers of people attended the Mafitt meetings at the Stamp Museum and the conference in the Postal Museum to mark the centenary of the birth of Mihály Gervay. • The Telecommunications Scientific Society, at its 1996 annual general meeting, admitted Mrs Gergely Kovács as an honorary member, and bestowed the Society’s silver medal upon her. • The Stamp Museum’s exhibition of sports motifs in Athens received a Vermei Award. • The Futics Prize for museum work was awarded in 1996. Public and professional relations The exhibition sites of the Foundation’s museums received 56,000 visitors in the third quarter of 1996. The Opusztaszer exhibition, which opened on June 9, was visited by 2000-3000 people a day-180 000 in the first four months. Events for the professional public in 1996 included the following: • A day conference in memory of Mihály Gervay (April 15). • Gervay as patron of the arts (music and literature, May 4). • World Telecommunications Day (music and literature, May 17). • Presentation for staff of the PKI Telecommunications Development Institute and teaching staff of the Budapest Postal and Banking Secondary School at the Radio and Television Museum in Diósd. Also held at Diósd was the Museum Coffee House event (May 6). • Staff of the Foundation’s museums took part in the Museum Marketing conference organized by the Central European University, and visited specialist museum conferences. • Recordings of programmes made by student groups, chosen by competition, began in December at the Radio and Television Museum. • Relations with the broader professional public were promoted by an event bidding farewell to the last manual telephone exchange (December 13), and by the Advent Salon (December 13-15). • Several newspapers and periodicals dealt with the Foundation’s museums. There were several radio and television reports about the Stamp Museum. The Postal Museum featured in the ‘Deeds of the Hungarians’ series of historical television programmes. • Accounts of the Foundation’s museums appeared in Budapest Vendégkönyv 1996 (Budapest Visitors’ Book 1996), a well-produced publication illustrated with photographs. International relations A meeting of the Presiding Committee of the IATM-PTT (International Association of Transport and Communications Museums) took place in Hungary on April 16-21. The sessions took place in the library of the Radio and Television Museum at Diósd. The programmes included visits to several of the Foundation’s exhibitions. During the meeting, 304
