Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1994

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an exhibition at the Ópusztaszer Post House to mark the 1100th anniversary of the Hungarian Conquest (1996) was also devised. As accepted plans, these may be of use in perfecting development ideas in the future.

The Foundation took part in and contributed at conferences concerning museum management. Plans to hold a one-day conference on the common concerns of tourism and the museums, however, were thwarted by the Hungarian Tourist Board’s lack of interest. An account of our own operating experience was drawn up. To improve the availability of information in foreign languages (English and German), stands with guide leaflets in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish were put up in the Postal Museum.

Of the concerts designed to promote cultural activity in the branch, the biggest success was the concert on Mother’s Day. The exhibitions in our museums were enriched by events on world days. The Foundation’s status as an integral part of the branch was exemplified by an exhibition mounted at the 14th National Postal Workers’ Conference in Debrecen.

A welcome change in our educational activity came with the exhibition entitled Hello, Tivadar Puskás’s Telephone News Dispenser Here!, which was visited by large numbers of secondary-school students, and by direct request of the schools concerned.

The work of the museums

The Stamp Museum completed the stock-taking phase of auditing its collections. On being entrusted with the records of the Poti Telecommunications Design Co. Ltd, the Postal Museum gained a new store and processing workshop. Discounting the Poti materials, which are still being processed, the following accessions resulted from collection trips to provincial directorates, purchases and donations over the year:

Collection

Increase (items)

Stamp Museum:

Hungarian stamps

54 779

Foreign stamps

39 063

Mixed

2 040

Stamp designs

245

Library

145

Postal Museum:

Objects

2 397

Documents

8 457

Library

293

There was indeed a very big increase in the Postal Museum’s collections over the year. This included some unique items: a 1000 Hz generator from the 50 kW Székesfehérvár transmitter, Thomas Cross’s two-volume Autobiography of a Stage Coachman, illustrated in colour and published in a limited edition in London in 1904, and some important 18th and 19th-century postal maps.

Processing of the Sopron collection, expansion of the data bank, and the work of segregation of the stores made progress.

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