A Közlekedési Múzeum Évkönyve 14. 2003-2004 (2005)

IV. RÉSZ • A Közlekedési Múzeum gyűjteményeiből 265 - Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló a Közlekedési Múzeum XIV. Évkönyvéhez (magyar, angol, német nyelven) 294

The Transport Museum commemorated the notable 200-year jubilee in 2004 by the temporary exhibition "200 Years Steam Locomotive". Mrs.Kóczián, Dr.Erzsébet Szentpéteri: New Establishment In The Museum In Keszthely (Coach Exhibition, Helikon Castle Museum). The collection of horse-drawn vehicles organized by museums started very late in our country, consequently a significant amount of the material disappered without traces, was taken abroad, or in better cases remained in the country and is in the possession of private collectors. One of the possible variants of the acquisition of the exhibition material for the coach museum (museums) intended to be established by the public collections is to search for private collections abroad for sale, containing material in relation to Central-Europe, Hungary and originating from the era of the AustroHungarian Monarchy. After obtaining the necessary support the material sould be imported into Hungary. The stable and the coach-house of the estate were prepared in the course of the renewal of the memorials in the Festetich Castle. For the management of the Helikon Castle Museum it became clear that the reconstructed stable and coach-house should be used for institutional purposes of the museum meaning the demonstration of the coach-house and the coach collection. The research workers of the Castle Museum succeeded in searching and buying a private collection of museum value for sale, for the acquisition of which the funds were provided. In the former farm-building belonging to the castle a temporary store and a restoring-renewing workshop were set up. After the careful preparation of the exhibited objects the ceremonial opening of the exhibition took place on the 6th January 2004. The exhibition demonstrates 27 cars and coaches, 4 horse-drawn sledges, 1 sedan-chair and a lot of harnesses, car equipment, statues and photos, engravings in connection with the car-drive. In her study the Author demonstrates the characteristic car types, laying special emphasis on the products of the car factories of the Lohner and Kolber Brothers. Mária Bezzeg: On Some Theoretical Questions of a Museum's Mood of Being: People have collected, preserved documents of inorganic, organic nature and social being for a long time, but collection is not an inborn - instinctive - activity. The genesis of the collection of what it is all about here has to be searched for when the change of function comes about, when the documents of humankind's life do not fulfil their originally intended function, or do not remain in the state of unintended existence (think of individuals of natural being), but transcending their original function in nature or social being they begin to fulfil a new function. It is not a characteristic of the specialized literature focusing on the collection that it would distinguish between people using something as an organic part of the everyday life from the case when people of the different epochs collect and looking at them as relics. In the history of collection it had been characteristic for a long time that people approached a document of the natural and social being with the thinking of everyday life - of which characteristic the anthropomorphism or analogy. But an approach to the documents of natural and social being accumulated in collections from the aspect of a kind of cognition also emerges, from the aspect of usefulness. The most elementary way of scientific approach probably was when the objects from the same material were grouped in one place. Later on, in the approach of scientific aspect to the collection of objects - in addition to the establishment of typology - the aspect of the history of development appears. It is characteristic of the long period of the collection and of the history of museums that the representatives of the diverse disciplines (archaeology, numismatics, etnography) - at the beginning studied almost exclusively in museums - looked at the objects as sources of the given discipline. For the last few decades an approach according to the aspects of a single discipline has been followed by a new, more universal aspect: what role did any single document (objects, written-, photo-, voice-, film-documents) play in the life of people. This new aspect 309