Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2006
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We need to make our museums attractive, which in many cases means advancing our activity based on tried and true practices to attract visitors. This means changing the outlook of management and museum operations alike. We need to eliminate parallel operations in different museums. This means concentrating tasks that can be combined - financing management, secretariat, restoring, exhibition organizing, and maintenance - in one place. The museum has to become an interactive meeting place allowing visitors to learn while having a good time. Visiting us should become an enjoyable and meaningful experience that they long remember. We need to create visitor-friendly 21st century museums. To this end, we have introduced new forms of presentation and are showing our collections in a more varied manner. In Miskolc, NE Hungary, we have opened our warehouse containing a telecom history artefacts collection to the public, giving them the opportunity to see items that have been packed away in cellars and warehouses for decades, where no visitors could approach them. At the same time, it is very important to maintain economic and operational harmony between the founders and the foundation. We need to work hard to keep the foundation from being simply a financial liability on the founders. Instead, it must be an investment and sponsoring opportunity that offers insight into the past and upon which the future can be built. The founders should be proud of the foundation with its museums and exhibition sites, and the latter should meet standards that are worthy of founder pride. We have to work hard to maintain equally good relations and cooperation with all of the founders. To this end, we have made a recent attempt to eliminate shortcomings in the legal operation of the foundation, for lawful operation is in the fundamental interests of both founders and foundation. Administration and business The personnel changes of the past year - the retirement of the director, the appointment of a successor and a new Postal Museum director - meant that we had to amend the founding document. In addition to the founders, the Budapest Municipal Court required that changes be made in the document, to bring it into conformity with the law. In 2007, one of the important administrative tasks of the foundation will be to immediately register the changes in the founding document as approved by the Budapest Municipal Court with the various authorities including the Tax and Financial Control Bureau (APEH), the Budapest Municipal Government, Erste Bank, which manages the foundation’s bank account, and others. The lawsuit regarding the building that houses the Postal Museum is still underway. Our goal in court is to be granted the right for the museum to remain in the historical building, possibly by trading it for real estate of corresponding value owned by the foundation. It also is necessary to update our internal rules to reflect the changes in the foundation. Labour and personnel registries must be completely revisited. This includes work contracts as well as job descriptions for each staff member. Magyar Telekom has provided the Postal Museum with a 600 m2 completely renovated warehouse/exhibition area in Miskolc for its telecommunications history collection, and has moved the artefacts out of the warehouse on Gyáli Road to the new venue. The new warehouse is being set up as a modem exhibition site. The outstanding task for this year will be to make the new warehouse suitable for receiving visitors and for schools to hold classes within it. This means providing appropriate rooms and supplementary facilities. 220
