Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1997

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In February, there were visits by Polish and Czech postal delegations. The museum joined the International Stamp Exhibition in Istanbul, winning a memorial medal and a diploma. Colleagues from Slovakia planning a postal and stamp museum at Besztercebánya (Ban- ská Bystrica) visited the museum to exchange experience. Staff attended a scientific conference and lectured on the museum’s activities.

In March, the Hungarian Philatelic Scientific Society (Mafitt) held a meeting of its presiding committee at the museum, and its annual general meeting at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, at which the museum was represented. The new art jury for stamps also met at the museum. Staff studied the Internet at the Internet Galaxy event in the Museum of Fine Arts. Visitors included trainee printers from the Light Industry Technical College. A temporary exhibition was mounted in Miskolc, before large numbers of members of the young people’s stamp-collecting circle.

In April came a visit from participants in the National Assembly ofYoung Stamp Collectors. Staff met museum curators from the Netherlands at the Postal, Stamp and Transport museums. A selection from the museum’s air-mail collection went on display at the András Jósa Museum in Nyíregyháza. The museum bought an 1831 cholera letter at auction.

In May the Hungarian Post PLC held a campaign entitled ‘Stamp Record for Zebras’. After the results had been announced at the Budapest Zoo, the museum was entrusted with 104 giant postcards. An exhibition was mounted at the May Festival in the garden of the Hungarian National Museum. A Finnish visitor presented the museum with some Finnish first-day covers. The museum was represented at the National Conference of Museum Curators, where the main subject was the new museum legislation. A display entitled ‘Hungary from the Conquest to the Present Day’ was contributed to the international stamp exhibition in Kecskemét.

In June the museum gained a roll of stamps issued in 1963 and five Danish first-day covers. Staff attended a conference on art security organized by the National Széchényi Library and the art department at Budapest Police Headquarters. A display of stamp series showing animals and zoos was compiled for the small museum at Budapest Zoo. No final decision was reached at meeting to discuss transferring vacant premises at the Erzsébetváros Telecommunications Centre to the Ministry of Transport and the Stamp Museum.

In July the museum library received a collection of philatelic books belonging to the late László Surányi, a notable philatelist. The presiding committee of Mafitt met at the museum.

In August the museum was represented at the 2nd Jászberény Meeting ofYoung Stamp Collectors, where staff contributed lectures and presented the museum’s publications. A small-scale exhibition was mounted of stamps and graphics depicting Hungarian wine regions. The museum received a rare addition to its collections when it was presented with an 1871 postal order, the pair of which was already on permanent display. This is clear because a piece from the next stamp attached to the 2-krajcár stamp on the museum’s postal order matches a piece missing from the stamp on the new acquisition. Both were issued on the same day at Naszód (Näsäud) Post Office. The managing director of Hungarian Post PLC sent a closed message to the museum by bottle post. Visitors included members of the Dunaújváros Young People’s Stamp Collecting Circle.

In September the museum displayed a thematic exhibition at the international space

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