Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1996
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Public relations • The Foundation would like to place well-produced posters, inviting people to its exhibitions, in the main offices, workshops and enquiry offices of its founders. It also wishes to enable visitors to all its exhibition sites to view the video film on a similar subject. • The Postal Museum has been holding tea afternoons in February and March to reconjure the past. Each event was addressed by a prominent speaker, who spoke on events in the recent past. • Museum events (openings, scientific meetings) will be linked to the telecommunications and postal world days and to the issue of new stamps. • Museum educational activities will be introduced as part of the PR work. So will family days, on which families are invited to view the museum exhibitions - above four members, free of charge. • Studies are being made of the requirements of a museum shop, including a financial plan for profitable or at least loss-free operation. • The Postal Museum was due to host the exhibition and prize-giving for the Hungarian Post’s children’s postcard competition in March. Scientific activity • Scientific and scholarly studies appear in this regular yearbook, whose appearance was planned to coincide with World Telecommunications Day. • A scientific day conference with invited speakers is planned on the subject of the ‘Tele Jubilees’. • After a successful application for funding, made to the Telecommunications Foundation, collection and processing of material for the CD publication on radio have begun. The product descriptions in the National Széchényi Library and other collections are being researched. International relations • The Foundation intends to take an active part in the work of the IATM and the MUT. • A visit from a Dutch ICOM delegation headed by the curator of the Postal and Telegraph Museum in the Hague was due to take place in April. • Specialists in museum studies with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC and the Thomas A. Edison Papers in New Jersey are being included in our research activities in 1997. A study trip is planned to the postal and telecommunications museums in Wroclaw and Zagreb. Budapest, December 1996 320
