Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2005
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history-of-technology and archival research. The Hungarian and English catalogue for the exhibit was ready for the opening of the display. Preparing the storyboard for a Postal Museum exhibit called 100 Years of Postal Packages required collecting all the rules governing postal package transport over the years, together with impact studies of package acceptance, postal handling, transport, and delivery. The Postal Museum at Balatonszemes offered a new permanent exhibit called From the Postal Wagon to the Post Office Truck, which presents all the carriages and motorized vehicles used in postal transport through to today. One part of archival work at the Postal Museum included exploring artefacts and documents that had once been stored in the old postal museum, but now had to be researched at the Hungarian National Archives and the Museum of Transport. Sixteen studies reporting on the result of museum research are included in the Foundation Yearbook. Exhibitions • Universe-Stamp History, new permanent exhibit, Stamp Museum, Budapest. • Codeword-Masterpieces: temporary exhibition, Stamp Museum, Budapest. • Hungary’s Flora and Fauna, Folk Art of Hungary - selection from the stamps designed by graphic artist László Dudás - travelling exhibition, major cities of China. • Hungary in Stamps: travelling exhibit, Hungarian Cultural Centre, New Delhi. • Hungary in the Stamps Designed by László Dudás: travelling exhibition to honour the 70-year-old artist, Nagykanizsa, Polgár, Sárvár. • 25th Anniversary of First Hungarian to Travel in Space: temporary exhibition, Planetarium, Budapest. • Space Research in Hungarian Stamps: temporary exhibition, Rezső Soó Memorial Hall, Debrecen. • 100 years of Postal Packages: permanent exhibit, Helikon Castle Museum, Keszthely. • From the Postal Wagon to the Post Office Truck: permanent exhibit, Postal Museum, Balatonszemes. • From the Memories of the Century-Old Main Post Office in Pécs: temporary exhibition, Main Post Office - entrance hall, Pécs. • The 120-Year-Old Budapest Postal Museum Greets the 300-Year-Old Tvrdosovce Post Office: temporary exhibit, Tvrdosovce, Slovakia. • Connections: temporary exhibit, Antenna Hungária Atrium Gallery, Budapest. • Memorial Exhibit for Painter and Postal Worker Imre Katona: Postal Museum Budapest. Visitor relations and programmes The most significant relationship the Foundation and its museums has with its visitors is based on visits to the museums. In 2005, the number of registered visitors was 91 981. Comments in the guest book suggest that many of our visitors consider the Postal Museum to be Hungary’s most valuable small museum. The Stamp Museum’s new permanent exhibit, Exploring the Stamp, has been a huge success. It allows visitors to explore the 240
