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items and turn it into a Postal Museum. However, a decision was made to tear down the hall instead. So the Postal Museum - whose collection spent 47 years being exhibited by the Transport Museum and participating in numerous other domestic and international displays - was not reorganized until 1955, the year it became an independent facility. Therefore, the official year that the Postal Museum was established as a body entitled to nationwide collection was 1955 even though the first major display of its collection was in 1896. Calculating with that date, the Postal Museum marks its 110th anniversary in 2006.

Ildikó Makkai-Várkonyi: The new permanent exhibit of the Balatonszemes Postal Museum

The new permanent exhibit of the Balatonszemes branch of the Postal Museum opened on June 11, 2005. It offers a wealthy selection of artefacts amidst the natural environment of Lake Balaton. With views of the lake augmenting a high-quality backdrop to the items, the display does far more than meet the criteria for a good exhibit, the author writes. The building that once was the stable for an old postal relay station has been renovated into a museum. Next to it is a newly constructed garage housing the exhibition From the Postal Wagon to the Post Office Truck. It contains original and renovated as well as scale models of the Postal Museum’s vehicle collection along with documents telling the history of postal deliveries. These, plus illustrations and photographs tell the tale of development from the 15th century travel wagon to the 20th century postal truck. A new feature of the display is that it presents all vehicles of the periods in question, either as originals or as scale models, along with human mannequins dressed in the garments of the era and loaded with period cargo.

Ferenc Hernitz: The postal and telecommunications history collection at the Sopron

The author offers this article to complement a similar paper written for the 1998 Yearbook, focused on a postal and telecommunications history collection that is part of the Budapest Postal Museum but is housed in Sopron where the items were collected and registered. He also focuses on the work of the collector, retired postal department manager Sándor Mesterházy. As the second and current curator of the collection, he reports on how the artefacts and documents were collected, registered, and protected from deterioration, and he discusses efforts to conduct postal history research in and around Sopron. He reviews the various categories of collected items and lists the independent and supplementary exhibits organized using the Sopron collection from 1987 to 2004. Finally, he voices the hope that posterity will continue to respect the ideas initiated by Sándor Mesterházy and will continue to protect the collection.

Adrienn Kovács: The history of postal homing pigeons

The title of this study is Heroic Homing Pigeons and Decorated Military Pigeons. In it, the author tells the story of the postal service homing pigeon including the special abilities of these pigeons and the way humans have tapped them to their benefit. After demon251