Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1993
Kiállítási emlékezések - Angol nyelvű összefoglalók
in Budapest (at the Cheque-Clearing Office), in June in Nyíregyháza (to mark 60 years of provincial radio) and in Pécs (at the new headquarters of the Postal and Telecommunications Directorate), and in December in Nagykarácsony (at the Christmas post office - karácsony is the Hungarian for Christmas). Staff members took part in conferences for historians and museum staff in Pécs, for museum curators in Nyíregyháza, on industrial design in Budapest, on telecommunications in Sopron, on historical geology in Tata, and on transport history in Budapest. The Museum Curator, Mrs Gergely Kovács, took part in two international conferences, in Ljubljana in May (MUT) and Paris in September (IATM). In the family atmosphere of our own immediate community, the joys (birthdays, name days, concerts) were mingled with woe, when we buried Ilonka, one of our museum attendants. Our collections and various other themes from postal history again brought us onto the television screen several times. In fact the Duna TV channel regularly broadcast its “Opening the Post” programme from the Museum. Alongside our successes and achievements, it must be said that in spite of an expansion in our technical equipment, we did not manage to commence the computer processing of our collection. Piroska Farkas Krizsák: p. 22 The Festive Events in the Jubilee Year February 15,1993 marked the centenary of the commencement of Tivadar Puskás’s great invention, the telephone news service, and March 16,1993 the centenary of the inventor’s death. These anniversaries were marked by several major events. The Foundation of the Postal and Telecommunications Museum organized a contest entitled Tivadar Puskás and His Times for students of postal and telecommunications secondary schools, an exhibition of his life and work, and a concert. On February 15, 1993, the Hungarian Post Office issued a commemorative postcard with a first-day-of-issue postmark. In the evening, Hungarian Radio and the transmission company Antenna Hungária PLC gave a joint press conference to launch a book in Hungarian, English and German on the telephone news service and an accompanying Rádiófónia CD. A wreath of remembrance was laid on March 16, 1993 on Tivadar Puskás’s grave in Budapest, after which the Telecommunications Scientific Association, Matáv and Antenna Hungária held a joint commemoration in the Tea Salon of Budapest’s Gellért Hotel. 136
