Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2003-2004
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The Postal Museum received a significant donation from the heirs to Deputy Director Dr. Károly Forster in the form of a collection of postal history documents. It was also presented with a legacy of official and unofficial documents and photographs from an outstanding postal family, consisting of Postal Secretary Mihály Pázmándi and his son, Post Office Manager Dr. Gábor Pazmandi. Postal Museum warehouses were monitored. One portion of the telegraph and telephone history collections is in neglected condition while another has been outright endangered because it has been necessary to move them repeatedly and because the building on Gyáli Avenue where they are currently located was sold. We plan to package these artefacts to prevent any further deterioration, with the assistance of students at the Puskás Tivadar Technical Secondary School for Telecommunications. We have begun operations to protect and restore the vehicles in the garage at Bala- tonszemes. We have begun covering the display cabinets at the Stamp Museum with security film to protect the highly valuable stamps they contain. The Postal Museum introduced Decree 20/2002 of the Ministry of National Cultural Heritage by revisiting our rules of registration. In the cartography archives and collection of technical drawings and technical documentation, our new curator began taking over and inventorying the collection following the unexpected death of the previous curator. The lists of Postal Museum artefacts that can be found at exhibition sites outside of Budapest are incomplete. The items that were exchanged for others over the years and returned to storage were not registered. The coordination process is currently underway. The computerised registration programme at the Stamp Museum has been put into practice with three curators doing the processing. Scientific efforts Work on the Kőszeg exhibition involved doing research at the local archive and studing a series of documents in a collection in Sopron. We collected all the images of couriers and postal workers available on stamps and computerised the images for the Kőszeg exhibit. We were able to find hitherto unknown details about the history of the Postal Museum in the Hungarian National Archives and the archives of the Transport Museum. We began collecting the materials to prepare a catalogue of the telephone history collection, which included taking pictures of the artefacts with a digital camera. We finished preparing a storyboard for a new permanent exhibit at Balatonszemes and have begun researching the history of postal transport. We collected images of coaches and other vehicles from professional volumes and periodicals as well as documents related to package-transport for the postal coach exhibition that is set to become part of the coach collection of the Helikon Castle Museum in Keszthely. With respect to the donations received by the museum over the course of the year, we have completed researching the photographs and the international military camp post cards from the Forster legacy, and have prepared a complete professional biography from the personal documents. 325
