Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1997

Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló angol nyelven

Károly worked hard for the cause of education in the Hungarian language, after Nagyvárad became part of Romania under the Treaty of Trianon. A few days before his death, on March 13, 1929 in Nagyvárad, he was elected a member of the scientific department of the Transylvanian Catholic Academy.

Tünde Oláh: The donation of maps by Ferenc Orbán

The map collection at the Postal Museum gained 52 maps, charts and atlases of various kinds in 1997. Thirty-two of them were officially handed over to the museum, including a series of 17 county maps of Hungary prepared for official use in 1971. There were four purchases: the Great Hungarian Atlas of 1906, a Hungarian postal map of 1833, and postal route maps of the 1870s and 1942. The remaining 16 maps were donated by Ferenc Orbán.

Orbán, a noted philatelist and postal historian living in Denmark, made donations of various kinds to the museum in 1997. A separate Ferenc Orbán fond has been opened, and so far contains his manuscript writings, copies of the rate books received from him, documents of postal history, and several copies of maps.

Of the maps Orbán donated, there are seven maps of an administrative character, three to do with transport, one relief map, one ethnographical map and one of a political nature. Three of them are directly related to postal and telecommunications history.

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Mrs Gergely Kovács

Plan of action for the Foundation of the Postal and Telecommunications Museums in 1998

Management and administration

The management and administrative tasks mainly concern developments prepared for in previous years and necessary corrective measures and modernization.

1. Review and updating of the organizational and operating statutes of the Foundation and the museums and provision of a uniform framework for these.

2. Official certification of the founders’ measures to amend the deed of Foundation. Approaches to the telecommunications-service providers in the Matáv group and inclusion of them in the museums’ work.

3. Survey and assessment of the management of the Foundation’s and museums’ premises.

4. Preparation of a five-year plan of renovation and maintenance, based on an accurate survey of conditions, for the premises and exhibition areas of the Foundation and the museums.

5. Planning of the changes to do with expanding the rented premises for the collection stores and work rooms.

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