Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2006
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The Hungarian Postal Service has granted targeted support to replace the fire safety equipment in the Stamp Museum. We also intend to continue publishing our series of exhibition catalogues, a brochure covering both the Miskolc and Hollókő exhibits and another combined publication on the displays at Opusztaszer and Kiskunhalas. We are offering professional assistance to the János Csonka Memorial Museum, which is staging its first display to mark the centenary of the first motorized post delivery vehicle. We also plan to issue a CD-ROM to mark the 50th anniversary of the start of television broadcasting in Hungary, for which we have applied for a grant. Collections-related tasks • Inventorying and processing the sketches and manufacturing designs of the stamps dating from 1996 to 2000 transferred to the Stamp Museum from the Hungarian Postal Service, and computerizing the records. • Computerized registration of foreign stamps we receive using the Michel online catalogue, and designing the manner and rules governing digitalization of them. • Re-inventorying the European, Asian and African stamp collection begun in 2006 as well as the Hungarian fee stamps, and the Soó, Poppovits, and Bakay classic postmark collections. • Preparing a complete Postal Museum inventory of the artefacts transported to the collection warehouse in Miskolc where they will go on display. • Updating the exhibition at the Postal Horn Gallery in Miskolc, and inventorying the items in its warehouse. • Moving the technical drawing and technical documentation collection from the building on Andrássy Boulevard to the Kert Alley warehouse where the rest of the documentation on drafts and plans is located. • Preparing a long term plan for restoring artefacts. • Completing the re-inventorying of the postal history collection. Scientific activity • Writing the studies to go into the foundation’s yearbook for 2006 and preparing the yearbook. • Preparing the scenarios for the exhibitions. • Publishing a joint brochure on our exhibits at Miskolc and Hollókő to be entitled Telecom Exhibition Sites of Northern Hungary. • Publishing a joint brochure on our exhibits at Opusztaszer and Kiskunhalas, to be entitled Telecom Exhibition Sites of the Southern Plains. • Preparing a CD-ROM called The History of Television Broadcasting in Hungary. These publications only will be produced in full if we are successful in obtaining funding through grants. Exhibitions • Receiving guest exhibition of fine art, Stamp Museum; • Selection of János Kass’s book illustrations and Eszter Kass’s paintings in a display called Father and Daughter, to mark the 80th birthday of graphic artist János Kass, Stamp Museum; • Stamp Day exhibition, Stamp Museum; 221
