Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1998

Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló angol nyelven

• Six staff of the Stamp Museum attended the Prague ‘98 stamp exhibition.

• The Foundation sent four representatives to the annual conference of museum curators at Sárospatak.

• The Foundation took part in the work of the organizing committee preparing for the Békésy Memorial Year in 1999.

• Assistance was given to the Gábor Baross Foundation with its work of erecting a memorial plaque and organizing an exhibition.

Budapest, January 8, 1999

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Mrs János Solymosi: História domus - Stamp Museum, 1998

In January, the Hungarian Philatelic Society held its executive meeting in the Museum. The Hungarian Post Office had released a memorial stamp on the 100th anniversary of Zsigmond Széchenyi’s birth. It was also in January that we paid our last respects to Adám Cziglényi, stamp designer and graphic artist, in Farkasrét Cemetery.

In February, Dr Lajos Mocsári donated to the Museum 2400 perforated company stamps and a tum-of-the century casket adorned with stamps. The Uruguayan Ambassador, Homero D. Martinez Lavlor, visited the Museum and offered to seek the Uruguayan stamps that are missing from the collection.

The temporary exhibition The philatelic record of the 1848^49 Revolution and War of Independence opened in March. On the opening day, the Deputy Managing Director of the Hungarian Post Office issued the anniversary commemorative stamp in the Museum. Béla Doros, Managing Director of the Hungarian Post Office, presented the Museum with a dedicated foreign first day cover. At its annual general meeting, MAFITT’s members voted two Museum staff on to its membership. In the Museum of Applied Arts, we exhibited a selection entitled Museum Masterpieces on Hungarian Stamps, where the Managing Director of the Hungarian Post Office released the series of stamps, Secession at the dawn of the 20th century.

In April, we presented the compilation, Philatelic documents of the 1848^49 Revolution and War of Independence at the international stamp exhibition in the Institute and Museum of Military History.

In May we expanded our standing exhibition in the János Xantus Museum in Győr to include occasional stamp impressions recording outstanding events in Győr.

In August, the heirs of graphic artist Ádám Cziglényi paid a visit, and afterwards donated the collected material that had remained in the museum. During the European Athletics Championships, the museum showed at the international stamp exhibition Olimpi- afila Budapest ‘98 the first Hungarian sport series, issued in 1925, and a selection of rubber stamp impressions commemorating athletic events. A catalogue, Hungarian Post office sport event stamps 1910-1998 was compiled by Gabriella Nikodém for this prominent exhibition and won bronze medal in the literature class.

In September we produced the presentation Gallery masterpieces on Hungarian post238