Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1998
Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló angol nyelven
Public relations and museum education work • The Foundation’s museums score a big success with the public each year at the May museums celebration in the garden of the Hungarian National Museum. The Postal Museum also took part this year in the multimedia event, with its CD of radio history. • There was joint participation with Matáv PLC in the Children’s Day festivities in Budapest’s Városliget (City Park). • As a new departure, the Foundation organized the school-year opening ceremony in September at Hollókő Primary School. • The Stamp Museum offered school-holiday activities between July 20 and August 26, including stamp designing and spinning and weaving. • Once again, the Foundation organized a Faraday Day at Diósd in Advent, for first-year students of the Tivadar Puskás Telecommunications Technical School. • Good working relations have developed with the Terézváros local-government authority. The Postal Museum provided the venue for two important local-government events, including the inaugural meeting of the new assembly after the local-government elections. • The museum educational work included activities and competitions for school students and contributions to events at the specialist secondary schools. • The museums were visited by numerous foreign museum staff and public personalities. • The Hungarian Philatelic Scientific Society (Mafitt) held five meetings at the Stamp Museum. • Almost 50 researchers made use of the museums’ libraries. Scientific activity • The Postal Museum’s double CD on radio history was launched in January 1998. Archive materials from almost all the Museum’s collections were included on the CD. It emerged that the preparation of CD publications requires changes in the Museum’s scientific processing work as well. • The exhibition scenarios and the guide-catalogues prepared for them embody significant scientific and scholarly work. • Several members of staff had materials published in specialist journals, specialist volumes and reference works. They contributed a number of lectures to the scientific meeting to mark the Baross Memorial Year, mainly on aspects of Gábor Baross as the ‘tele-minister’, the first important developer of Hungarian telecommunications. • The second national conference of technical museum staff was held jointly with the National Technical Museum. A lecture was contributed on the scientific activity taking place in the Foundation’s museums. • The eighth volume of the Foundation yearbook appeared in mid-December 1998, covering the events and researches of 1997. Miscellaneous • The Foundation took part in the general assembly of the Central European Union for Technical Museums (MUT), which was held in Budapest. 237
