Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1998
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Our Foundation in conjunction with the Tivadar Puskás Telecommunications Technical College set out to make its contribution to this via a quiz, “1848 mining on Internet”. Our idea was for many school groups to put their knowledge of 1848 events to the test in the competition between 15 March 1998 and 15 March 1999 so as to generate wider interest in the events and memories of this noble period of their nation. Keeping the youngest of young people in mind, we attempted to make the “jubilee” academic year memorable to nursery children in Hollókő and to children in the first four years of primary school by holding a grand school year opening in the garden of the Hollókő museum and - in case of cold weather - in the Culture House. The nursery and school teachers proved ready partners in this, as was witnessed by the children’s fine dancing and singing. We hope that by our events and competitions for young people and children, we have succeeded in bringing them closer to the days of 1848^-9, and trust that many of them will also retain valued memories of the 150th anniversary of the time, which was given a fitting celebration for today’s young people. Klára Lukács: Free time children’s activities The Stamp Museum first got involved in spare-time activities for young school children in 1998, by participation in the Szüni-dö-dő series of events. Children and their parents were welcomed three times during the summer to write letters with reed pens, rubber- stamp letters, design stamps and to do some weaving with textile designer Erzsébet Szekeres. Before each activity, we gave the children a brief introduction to the museum, highlighting some special stamps. The inspiration for the first activity was the 1848 exhibition. We showed the children “courier letters”, revealing how post was handled in the last century before the introduction of the stamp and how letters were franked at the time, and giving them a taste of postal history. Theory was promptly followed by practice. We could not procure quill pens, but we managed to get hold of reed pens, which are just as difficult to write with. It was a joy to see the little rogues scribbling all over the place in an attempt to make the letters as “nineteenth century” as possible. Their efforts resulted in a great many blots, and so what the results lacked in beauty they made up for in reed-pen authenticity. After the writing, we taught them to fold the letter into the form of an envelope. They used the manual press to stamp them, the Pesth and Pest local stamps, and franked them with the St Andrew’s Cross. Many ran back and forth to the exhibition room so that they could apply other postmaster’s marks, showing the letters weight, for example, in lat (=half an ounce). Nothing proves the success of the events better than that the museum was full from start to finish, and since the school year started we have been receiving streams of telephone enquiries as to when we are holding the next children’s activity day. Mrs Gergely Kovács: Survey and development plan of properties used and rented by the Foundation of Postal and Telecommunications Museums The survey covers the present condition and development plans, incorporating those for the thousand year anniversary of the foundation of the state of Hungary, of properties 259
