Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2006
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• Insects of Hungary in Philately, No. 1 Post Office, Pécs; organized jointly by the Stamp Museum and the Janus Pannonius Museum of Pécs; • Sárvár Protestant Days, as part of programmes in Sárvár, Stamp Museum; • Reorganization of Rezső Soó Memorial Hall, Diligence Exhibition Hall, Stamp Museum; • Birth of Jesus on stamps of the world: Pécs No. 1 Post Office, Stamp Museum; • Remembering Béla Tomcsányi and Kálmán Tihanyi on their 100th birthdays, at the Radio and Television Museum, Postal Museum; • 50 years of television broadcasting in Hungary, at the Atrium Gallery of Antenna Hungária, Postal Museum; • Letter boxes, Pécs No. 1 Post Office, Postal Museum; • Advent Salon, Postal Museum auditorium. Relations with our visitors Both museums actively participate in Museum Mayday, Museum Midsummer’s Night Programmes and in Cultural Heritage Protection Day programmes. The Stamp Museum offers Mafitt (Hungarian Philatelic Society) presentations, student programmes, and a home for young stamp collectors. We will continue our series Conversations in the Museum, as well as our summer programmes for children, and school classes held in the museums. The Postal Museum will organize ten joint programmes for the 178 members of the Museum Assent Association. Each year it organizes a Telecom Mayday at Diósd combined with a radio broadcasting day; at Hollókő it holds Midsummer Night’s fire jumping programmes, in Budapest, it celebrates World Post Day and in Berzék it commemorates István Tomcsányi alongside the local government. In addition, programmes and meetings organized by the Scientific Society for Telecommunications and Information Technology will be held in the auditorium throughout the year. Budapest, December 19, 2006. Piroska Farkas Krizsák: Tracking anniversaries In the section of our Yearbook called Tracking Anniversaries, the author focuses on several such anniversaries. Reviewing the events in chronological order, she connects the description of the anniversaries being marked to the artefact and document collections of the Postal Museum. The first such anniversary is the 125th birthday of the first telephone used in Hungary, which also marks the first telephone switchboard to open in Budapest on May 1, 1881, and the two men who brought about the phone network in Budapest, Tivadar and Ferenc Puskás. The next anniversary she mentions is the 100th birthday of domestic radio broadcasting, marked by the first successful broadcast attempt on September 1, 1906. Farkas-Krizsák uses a description of how the military schools of the time maintained communication with civilians written by retired army Colonel Béla Vörös to commemorate 1956. She then reviews the work of two outstanding engineers - Péter Károly Goldmark 222
