Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1996

Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló angol nyelven

restored Telephonic News Dispenser, complete with a network of subscriber stations, serves as an exhibit and an audio-visual aid.

• The Museum mounted two displays in conjunction with presentations of the Matávnet Internet service. The demonstration of video telephony resumed at the Telephone Museum, when Japanese video telephones and an exchange were transferred from the István Széchenyi College in Győr.

• A 22-minute video film in Hungarian, English and German was made, presenting the Foundation’s museums and exhibition areas.

Exhibitions

• Stamp Museum

Life’s work of Ádám Cziglényi (Stamp Museum)

Dolls on Stamps (Stamp Museum)

Exhibition of sports motifs (Athens)

The Coming of the Magyars (Ópusztaszer)

Treasures of Hungarian Museums (Hungarian National Museum)

Nobel Prize-Winners on Hungarian Stamps (Hungarian National Museum)

1100 Years on Stamps (Stamp Museum)

Hungary 1100 - Budapest ’96 (Hungarian Cultural Foundation)

Saints of the House of Árpád on Stamps (Kecskemét)

Stamp Salon (Hungarian Cultural Foundation)

Pictures of Hungary (Istanbul)

Egyptian Art on Stamps (Diligence Hall, Debrecen)

1956 Overprints (Stamp Museum)

• Postal Museum

The Beginnings of Telecommunications (Budapest University of Economic Sciences) The Work of Dénes Mihály (Butterfly Effects, Műcsarnok, Budapest)

Telephony in Budapest on the Millenary and the 1100th Anniversary of the Hungarian Settlement (Hungarian Cultural Foundation)

Token Alternatives (János Xantus Museum, Győr)

Telecommunications at the Time of the Millenary (Postal Museum, Ópusztaszer) Life and Works of Mihály Gervay (Mihály Gervay Postal and Banking Secondary School) Hungary 1100-Budapest ’96 (Hungarian Cultural Foundation)

Societies of Old (Planetarium)

The Hungarian Post from the Millenary to the 1100th Anniversary of the Hungarian Settlement (Postal Museum)

Advent Salon (Postal Museum)

Scientific activity and recognition

• The 1995 Yearbook of the Foundation of the Postal and Telecommunications Museums, which appeared in May 1996, includes an account of the museums’ scientific work.

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