Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2003-2004
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our collection of 13 million items. Sadly, the rules on record maintenance published as an executive decree of the new museum act cannot be applied to the unique system of the Stamp Museum. Therefore, the museum requested an exemption from its introduction. The following table illustrates the increase in the Stamp Museum’s collection: Collection of Hungarian stamps 51298 Collection of foreign stamps 21212 Miscellaneous collections 9 658 Library 109 At the Postal Museum, new curators were needed to take over several collections (radio and television, other relics of technology, rubber stamps, telephone cards, printed forms, etc.) because of staff death, retirement, or employment termination. The result was a slow-down in collections and inventory operations. Thanks to a competitive grant we won, we were able to completely computerise the roughly 5,500 photographs of historical value in our collection of images and portrayals. We are still in the process of monitoring the captions - with the assistance of retired specialists. Once the process is complete, our computerised images will to onto our website where they will be accessible to everyone who is interested. At the Postal Museum, we have completed the restoration of a significant number of facilities used for operations and administration. They include the furnishings of the mail processing room at Kisújszállás, mailboxes, tables, benches, etc. In addition, we have built scale models of two rare postal vehicles - a diligence carriage and a Matthias era coach. Family tree research conducted while preparing manuscripts in our archives for publication - involving the Forster and Pázmándi, and the Krammer and Kisfalvy families - have added valuable personal relics to our collections. The new items to join the Postal Museum collections were as follows: Collections of artefacts 343 Collections of documents 1170 Archives 584 Scientific work The collection of material for an exhibit called Postal workers of the world as seen on stamps and the design of the display is underway at the Stamp Museum. A storyboard for a virtual exhibition of the lithographic and engraved Hungarian stamps of 1871 has been prepared and is ready to go onto the Stamp Museum’s website. A series of larger and smaller studies have been written in relation to the events of the Dr. Rezso Soo Memorial Year, the Memorial Meeting in Debrecen, and the centenary exhibitions. Since the Stamp Museum has asked for an exemption from the Ministry of National Cultural Heritage with regard to introducing a new recording system set up as mandatory, we expect to be doing some major coordination. We have begun to introduce a new registration and recording system at the Postal Museum, involving a series of coordination efforts related to designing and testing recordation software. Organising the material in the data archives of the Postal Museum and the start of its processing was a significant step forward. We published several manu317
