Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2005
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Mrs. Béla Vichmann Report on public service and business operations The Postal and Communications Museum Foundation was established on January 1,1990 by the Hungarian Telecommunications Corporation, the Hungarian Postal Service, and the Antenna Hungária Corporation. The purpose was to nurture the joint museum heritage of the three founders, to present it to the public, and to process it in a scientific manner. The Foundation was registered by the Budapest Municipal Court under Number 429. Since 1998 it has operated as a public service organization of special significance. Since 2005 it has been conducting its cultural activity under the name Communications Museum Foundation. The past year was one of multiple anniversaries. It was the 120th anniversary of the foundation of the Postal Museum, the 50th anniversary of the opening of its first independent exhibition, the 75th anniversary of the start of the Stamp Museum, and the 15th anniversary of the Foundation framework. We have appropriately marked the anniversaries with a new permanent exhibit at the Helikon Castle Museum called 100 Years of Postal Packages, one at the Balatonszemes museum called From the Postal Wagon to the Post Office Truck, and one in Pécs called From the Memories of the Century-Old Main Post Office in Pécs. We organized a temporary exhibit called The 120-Year-Old Budapest Postal Museum Greets the 300-Year-Old Tvrdosovce Post Office in Slovakia, and a temporary display called Connections at the Gallery of Antenna Hungária, as well as a memorial exhibit to painter and postal engineering worker Imre Katona (1930-1995) at the Postal Museum. The 75-year-old Stamp Museum was remodelled and renovated. The new permanent exhibit Universe-Stamp History displays 550 000 stamps as well as the lithographic stones used to print stamp designs that were submitted to postal competitions but never issued as actual stamps. We issued a double yearbook for 2003 and 2004, as well as a Hungarian-English catalogue for the Stamp Museum. In 2005, the museums run by the Foundation hosted 91 981 visitors. The Foundation does not conduct business activity, which means that it had no revenue from business activity. It is independent of all political parties and conducts no political activity. In 2005, the Communications Museum Foundation financial - inflow and expenditure - data were as follows, given in HUF 1000: 242
