Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2008

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László Jakab: The telecom history exhibition-warehouse in Miskolc

When the Postal Museum’s gave up its warehouse space at Gyáli Road in 2006, we began to move the telecommunications history collections housed there to Miskolc, into the room once housing the switchboard at the Avas housing estate telephone building. Our goal was not just to warehouse the artefacts but to design a space that was open to visitors. We described the move of the equipment, installations, and other materials - packing, loading, transporting and the start of the unpacking process - in our 2006 yearbook. By the end of 2006 we had about eighty percent of the shelves and stands in place as well as the manual switchboards, and had unpacked and placed many of the artefacts where they could be seen. We continued the project in 2007, evolving the space in the exhibition- warehouse, cleaning and reorganizing the artefacts, and choosing their final places. We also put some of the old telegraph and telephone sets as well as some switchboard sections into working order and connected them up. The author reports on all of these events and on the ceremonious opening of the facility.

Ildikó Makkai-Várkonyi- András Bálint Kapi: Memorial Day at the Postal Museum

In honour of the 140th anniversary of the establishment of the first independent Hungarian postal service, the Professional Association of Postal Workers held a memorial meeting in the Postal Museum auditorium on October 17,2007. The ceremony included presentations by the host, museum director László Egervári as well as by outstanding professionals including dr. György Csáki, president of the Hungarian Postal Service, dr. Sándor Horváth, director of the logistics branch of the Hungarian Postal Service, and dr. László Oláh, retired postal service deputy CEO. After the presentations, the speakers offered the audience a glimpse into the key stations of Hungarian postal history, using slide projections to illustrate. They chose to focus on twelve subjects within the wealth of 140 years of history, presenting these oeuvres with their rich professional histories as a quasi-kaleidoscope. To allow a broader audience than the participants in the memorial meeting access to those presentations, we offer the full texts, covering all twelve subjects, in our yearbook.

Gabriella Nikodém: Past. Present. Future?

The Stamp Museum opened a new temporary exhibit on April 3, 2007. Rather unusually, this exhibit was not of stamps, graphic designs for stamps, or objects related to stamp history, but instead was host to a guest exhibit for the Altamira Arts Society. The idea behind the display - writes the author in an article reviewing the exhibit - was that the society has four members who are also stamp designers: Pál Varga, András Szunyoghy, István Orosz and Károly Vagyóczky. However, for this particular display the artists did not present their stamp designs but in conformity with the group’s own programme, they presented their nature-related works to visitors. At the same time, we need to point out that Hungarian stamps portraying nature and environmental issues have won growing acclaim at international stamp competitions. In 2006, for instance, a stamp issued by the Hungarian Postal Service in 2005, called Recycling for a Cleaner Environment, won first prize in the environment category at the 36th Asiago International Stamp Beauty Contest.

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