Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2003-2004

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László Jakab - Viktor Cserti: Standardised telephones in wooden boxed from the infancy of Hungarian telephony - how the treasures in a warehouse were beautified

In 2003, this pair of authors began renovating the artefacts in the Postal Museum’s telephone history collection. In the process, they have renovated 25 telephone handsets in the past two years. The artefacts include wall telephones built into wooden boxes and home phones from the early 1900s, must of which they managed to render operable. The article reviews the manufacturers of the telephones including Helios sets made by Berliner, and the Deckert-Homolka phones built into wooden boxes which were the first standardised sets in Hungary. They note that they managed to rebuild two telephones in the restoration process using almost exclusively original components.

Klára Pataki: The Postal Museum collection marks its 120th anniversary

The Postal Museum collection began 120 years ago in 1885, with the first artefacts and documents presented at a nationwide exhibition. There are many opportunities for a retrospective, for learning more about our history and studying it at greater depth. The author bases her study on the belief that the main role of a museum is to display its treasures to visitors. Its job, she notes, is to offer exhibitions and publications to acquaint as many people as possible with the history of the postal service, and in general, with the joys and advantages of visiting museums. This is the spirit in which she presents the comments written by readers of your yearbooks in museum guest books. This particular study focuses on the 120th anniversary in spotlighting the comments of 120 guests in the light of the statistics of the past two years.

Mrs. Gergely Kovács: World heritage, tough heritage, lawsuit over heritage

As guardian of the Postal Museum, the author, who has been given the job of protecting the building that houses the museum itself in addition to being curator of the telecommunications heritage, is sad to present the documents on the sale of the museum as an appendix to her article. These are official and unofficial documents and correspondences that might become important source materials on the era we live in 50 or 100 years hence. Some of these documents are considered essential while others are simply typical. They are presented, in whole or in part, in chronological order. They present a sad story that will become a tough and lawsuit-studded heritage for posterity. It becomes absolutely clear from the documents that the Saxlehner Mansion, located at the gateway to Andrássy Boulevard which is itself a part of the Unesco World Heritage, that has been home to the Postal Museum since 1972, was sold in 2004 by its owner, the Local Government of Theresa-town.

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