Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2003-2004
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Over the course of the year, 20 789 people visited the Stamp Museum exhibits while 136 939 came to see the permanent and temporary exhibitions presented by the Postal Museum. At the same time we submitted our bid for Museum of the Year 2002, we began updating and improving the exhibits in all 11 of our exhibition sites, projects we finished by the end of April. We were unable to do more than prepare two exhibits designed for the Postal Museum. We were unable to come to agreement with the authority responsible for monuments and memorials with respect to the exhibition site in Kőszeg, and are in the midst of a lawsuit with the Open Air Museum of Ethnography at Szentendre over the furnishings for the Jászárokszállás post office. We have thus been forced to postpone these exhibitions until 2004. We prepared the Postal Museum’s first virtual exhibition with financial support from an e-world grant, and software designed by the Budapest University of Polytechnics and Economics that the museum owns. Visitors to the website can see the Museum of Telephony exhibit called Noise Barrier to WorldWideWeb, which will go onto the Net in Hungarian, English, and German in mid-March, complete with digital images of historical photographs. Public relations, special events, media The Foundation and the museums held close to fifty events on their own in 2003, attended by about 1500 participants. The founders and their associate organisations held 66 professional meetings in the Foundation’s auditorium, for 2077 people. The number of researchers visiting the collections of the two museums showed a heartening increase. Two hundred and twenty eight researchers visited the Stamp Museum and 236 called on the Postal Museum. In all, 157 728 people visited museum exhibitions. The Stamp Museum organised 323 guided tours while the Postal Museum organised 2474. Outstanding programmes at the Stamp Museum: • Various events connected to Rezső Soó Memorial Year (a Rezső Soó student contest, wreath laying at his grave, memorial church service, memorial exhibition and memorial conference in Debrecen). • Lace-making demonstrations (the exhibition of stamps displaying the laces of Kiskunhalas included almost monthly demonstrations of lace-making by the Kiskunhalas lace-makers). • Mafitt (philatelists) meetings. • Meetings of District 11 stamp collectors. In addition to the regular events held at the Postal Museum (Telecom May Day, Midsummer Day’s Fire-Jumping at Hollókő, World Postal Day concert) we organised: • Museum May Day Reception to celebrate winning the Museum of the Year 2002 award. • Participation in the Museum Night programme with a concert performed by folk instruments. • Pilgrimage to the radio tower-antenna at Lakihegy. • István Tomcsányi memorial meeting at Miskolc, unveiling of memorial plaque at Berzék. • Roundtable with managers of radio stations marking anniversaries. 319
