Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1996
Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló angol nyelven
• A management reappraisal of the repair and maintenance processes is required. Obsolete equipment requiring costly maintenance needs to be discarded, and protection against fire and theft brought up to date. • In-house production of exhibitions has already brought substantial savings. However, the installations and equipment for travelling exhibitions need to be modernized and a standard visual concept applied. • Competitive funding applications should be made to foundations and funds supporting cultural, scientific and museum activities. Such support could allow faster completion, and to a higher standard, of tasks that would otherwise take several years for financial reasons. • More flexible wage and payroll management is required to provide financial rewards for the members of teams that undertake priority tasks and possess a broad range of expertise. • Intensive courses are required in the computer skills and foreign-language knowledge needed at work, with an examination requirement. • The Foundation’s PR and museum education activity should be launched on an organized footing as a permanent assignment for young staff members at the museums, working as a group. • The practice of working at home should be introduced for a small group of pensioner employees. • There should be more active cooperation with the professional scientific and social organizations, by holding Foundation events. • There is a need for a marked improvement in working conditions, a reduction in overcrowding in working areas, and modernization of storage equipment. • Staff turnover needs to be directed towards qualitative changes, if possible bringing down the average age. Tasks with the museum collections • The audited inventory at the Postal Museum will continue. • The collection-handling system at the Stamp Museum must be drawn up and introduced after the new museum curator has been appointed. • Museum staff will place the inventories of the Postal Museum collections on computer by June 30, 1997. • At the Stamp Museum, this work will cover the commemorative cancelling stamps and the stamp designs. • Collection trips to postal and telecommunications directorates in 1997 will cover the areas of the Budapest and the Buda and Pest directorates respectively. • Major additions to the collections can be made by drawing on personal and social relics. Notices can be placed in professional papers (Posta Magazin, Telefontos, Modulátor) stating what kind of archive materials are required for certain exhibitions, or pointing to gaps in the collections. • A welcome increase in the number of duplicates in the museums’ collections makes it possible to start a more intensive programme of exchanges with other museums at home and abroad. 318
