Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2006

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technology has been playing an increasingly significant role in today’s museums, with various sound and image effects, and increasingly attractive programmes for families and children. Some are intended to draw in visitors, while others are designed to satisfy their curiosity. This is the author’s point of departure when he describes the opportunities he sees in expanding the teaching operations already underway in the Postal Museum. These programmes are intended to meet the needs of pre-schoolers and young primary school children and their parents, as well as to satisfy the interests of students in secondary school and college. After reviewing the interesting and useful features of the games he has designed to improve memory and logical skills, he shows readers question and answer sheets already used in museum teaching and describes the pleasant task of teaching in museums as well as the gratitude of the students.

László Jakab: Trials and tribulations of the telegraphic and telephone history collection or the move from Gyáli Road

The collection of telecom artefacts began back in the 1880s and continues to this day. In fact, artefacts connected to telegraphic and telephone history take up the most space of all the Postal Museum’s collections. The largest part of the collection aside from the telegraphs everyone recognizes and the high standard and sometimes expressly elegant telephones, are the transmission equipment - frames, units, machinery - which take up a great deal of space and are an integral part of the collection. These huge and sometimes very heavy objects have always been a placement problem for the museum. When Magyar Telekom automated its facilities a portion of its telephone switchboard in Miskolc was emptied out, leaving a roughly 600 m2 area that it offered to the museum to use as a warehouse for telecom history artefacts that visitors would be able to access. The author describes the happy event during which the museum gained access to the facility and moved the many artefacts it had been unable to display - most stored in the warehouses at Gyáli Road - to Miskolc and began setting up a warehouse that also served as a display area.

Jenő Szabó: Series of stamps marks 60th anniversary of forint as currency

The Stamp Museum organized a memorial meeting on August 1, 2006 to mark the 60th anniversary of the introduction of the forint as Hungary’s currency. Dr. Erika Garami of the Postal Museum offered a highly illustrative and interesting presentation on the history of the forint. She focused on the entire history of the coinage called the forint in Hungarian and florin elsewhere, from the gold coin named after Florence, Italy by monarchs from the House of Anjou through the coins and paper money of today. She offered a detailed account of the story behind the introduction of the new forint following the Second World War. In the second half of the meeting, the author described a stamp series called Forint- Fillér, which marked the anniversary of the currency and its one-hundredth part. Emphasizing that this subject was not as exciting or as important as the actual introduction of the money, it was nevertheless closely connected to it, because the postal stamps - as a government monopoly - were forced to maintain the pace of the hyperinflation that led to the forint’s introduction. So, the Forint-Fillér stamp series, which is valid to this day, saw the light of day at the same time as the newly introduced forint. The author emphasizes the interesting content of the two presentations in the written article.

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