Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 2001

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• The Postal Museum will run a check to see that protected artefacts still used in post offices have not been removed, and will survey their condition.

• All curators who manage collections will prepare for supervision of their professional operations, due in 2002.

Scientific Operations

• Curators will prepare their collection-related research plans for 2002-2005, to include the venues of and conditions for all research that is necessary outside the museums.

• The last section in the chronology of the history of the postal and telecom services, from 1964 to 1990, will be published in the 2002 Yearbook.

• A research project will work on the telecom history of the region of the country between the Danube and Tisza Rivers in preparation for exhibitions, and historical research related to the Pécs Post Office Administrative District (SW Hungary) and the Jászság (CE Hungary) will be done.

• We will bid for a grant to continue our series on 20"' Century Hungarian Engineers, requesting professional opinions on the planned names and on the materials available in our collections.

• We will contact similar museums abroad to collect the materials for an exhibition in Bala- tonszemes (W Hungary), and prepare a sequence of related tasks including deadlines.

Exhibitions

• Above and beyond regular annual maintenance, the exhibition at Nagyvázsony (CW Hungary) needs to be completely updated, now that the building has been renovated.

• Matáv has asked for a history exhibition at the telephone centre in Kiskunhalas (SE Hungary), most likely for World Telecom Day in 2002.

• When the Postal Administration Centre in Pécs (S Hungary) is renovated it will include a museum exhibition area that opens from the public area, and our Foundation will provide the display. The design for the exhibit will be prepared in 2002.

• The Open Air Museum of Ethnography at Szentendre (near Budapest) would like to have an operating post-office of museum quality, similar to the one at Opusztaszer, in a structure brought there from Jászárokszállás (E Hungary).

•• The Foundation has called for design submissions for itinerant exhibitions as part of the Futics Tender for 2001-2002. The result should be at least one itinerant exhibition in 2002.

• The Stamp Museum will present a new selection from the Rezső Soó collection at the Debrecen Diligence Exhibition Hall.

• Tableaux to be on display for stamp day will be prepared based on a theme not yet selected.

• The Stamp Museum will conclude its series on the collections of artists and their stamp designs with the works of graphic artist Ferenc Swindl.

• In June the Stamp Museum will present an exhibit of textile designer Mária Vajda, called Memories through the Post.

• We will begin efforts to prepare a new permanent exhibition of Hungarian stamps planned for 2003.

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