Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2006
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Opinion of supervisory committee The supervisory committee reviewed the 2006 annual report of the Communications Museum Foundation and approved the auditor’s report. The foundation report was in conformity with the specifications of the accounting act. The Supervisory Committee of the Communications Museum Foundation approved the annual report for 2006. Budapest, March 29, 2007. László Egervári Communications Museum Foundation work plan for 2007 The museums of the Communications Museum Foundation continue to believe that their most important jobs are to collect, protect, process and present artefacts to the widest possible audiences. This is what the age we live in expects and demands of them. As far as presentation is concerned, we need to remind readers that before the change in political regime, people often visited museums as part of tours organized by the places where they worked. Workplaces organized excursions for various groups which they connected with trips to museums and other leisure programmes. In the past couple of decades, however, social customs have changed fundamentally for the effects of globalization have become apparent, here too. Ways of obtaining information, of amusement, and of spending leisure time have also changed. With the appearance of the Internet and growing reliance on it, there has been a basic change in the way information is obtained. The structure of general cultural consumption also changed. The mall culture in which people spend their weekends in shopping malls has evolved. Multiplex cinemas and shopping opportunities have become the primary choices for spending leisure time. Economic life has also changed. Businesses and workplaces concentrate on the economy of operations in organizing day-to-day tasks and have neither the inclination nor the opportunity to organize leisure time programmes where staff members and their families can come together. Since we have no way of isolating ourselves from or changing social effects, we have to consider these changes when designing and managing museum programmes. We need to expand the narrow stratum of people who are current consumers of museum displays. Member, Supervisory Committee Member, Supervisory Committee Erzsébet Petényi Uárdos Chairperson, Supervisory Committee 219
