Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2003-2004
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operation, will be available in the library’s reading room and the secretariat. They also will be available on the Foundation’s Intranet site in computerised format. • We will continue to seek funding through competitive bids, which will include bids for European Union funds. • Sale of the Postal Museum building and the lawsuit to nullify the sales contract initiated by the Foundation have created many unforeseen administrative and business tasks. We also have to maintain connections with the NGOs that have joined us in fighting the sale, and with the media. • A top priority is putting in new flooring in the exhibit rooms and staircases of the Stamp Museum together with a complete painting of walls and woodwork and, to the extent our funding allows, renovation of bathrooms. These projects are to be finished in the first half of the year. Collections-related tasks • We have a project planned together with the Puskás Tivadar Technical Secondary School for Telecommunications. In it, each student will adopt two items from our telecom history collection (storage facility at Gyáli Street). Under the supervision of teachers and museum curators, the students will clean and wrap up the artefacts. Another part of this project is to prepare digital photographs of the items after they are cleaned but before they are packaged, with one image to include the artefact together with the student that adopted it. These artefacts have been moved several times recently and by now sorely need to be cleaned and carefully packaged, for another move is anticipated. • A postal archiving committee needs to be established to operate together with the Matáv (telecom) archiving committee to promote acquisitions. We anticipate a two-day meeting of the two committees to pinpoint the items missing from our collections. • We plan to have the artefacts of the Balatonszemes exhibition, including the mobile post office freight car, restored by mid-May. Scientific work • Preparation of storyboards for the following exhibitions:- Universe, stamp history, Stamp Museum;- The motto is masterpieces, Stamp Museum;- 100 years of postal packages, Helikon Castle Museum, Keszthely;- From coaches to mobile postal services, Postal Museum, Balatonszemes;- Csonka-designed postal vehicles celebrate 100th anniversary, János Csonka Museum, Budapest;- Itinerant exhibition of World War I memorabilia handled by the postal service;- Itinerant exhibition marking the 15th anniversary of the Communication Museum Foundation. • Preparation of studies connected to the museum collections for the 2003-2004 yearbook. They will be written by Ferenc Vejtey, mentor of the philatelic library, Mirkó Frigyes Poppovits, collector of the world famous Hungarian classic stamps that make up the Stamp Museum’s backbone collection, Elemér Czakó, founder of the museum archives, etc. 328
