Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1994
Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló angol nyelven
Restoration, reconstruction and aids to demonstration Restoration work in 1995 has to be confined to objects for exhibition at Diósd and Debrecen. Contracts need to be made with specialist workshops for reconstruction work on operating equipment. We also wish to include modem demonstration aids in the Diósd exhibition. The specialists designing these to be provided with suitable materials to process. Exhibitions Alandmark will be the opening of the Radio and Television Museum at Diósd on December 1, 1995, the 70th anniversary of Hungarian broadcasting and the centenary of the radio. Similarly importance attaches to preparing the exhibition at the Debrecen telecommunications museum. This will show the history of Debrecen telecommunications and the postal directorate from the beginnings to the present day, along with the philatelic bequest of Rezső Soó and his activity as an art collector. In our succession of anniversary exhibitions, we would like to recall the appearance of the picture postcard, if possible tying in with post office efforts to encourage personal correspondence. The Stamp Museum is preparing materials on behalf of the Hungarian postal directorate for exhibition abroad (at the Finlandia and Singapore ’95 events). It continues its presentation of stamp designers (with Éva Zombori) and is preparing for the world stamp exhibition in 1996. The Museum of Tihany Benedictine Abbey has offered the Foundation a room for a permanent exhibition to be renewed every five years. Here we would like to place an exhibition of stamp designs, stamps and postcards entitled „Church History and Art on Postal Relics”. In addition, the regular annual renewal has to take place at the Foundation’s five provincial exhibition areas. By 1996, the Keszthely exhibition has to be prepared, and the alteration and renovation work carried out at the Opusztaszer Museum. Finally, preparation of the Hungarian material has to begin for the world stamp exhibition, which will be one of the events to mark the 1100th anniversary of the Hungarian Conquest. Scientific activity All specialist museum staff have to contribute to the widespread collection of materials and library research required for the exhibition scenarios. Exhibition guides need to be compiled and revised, and displayed at exhibitions in Hungarian, German, English, French, Spanish and Russian, according to the system tried at the Postal Museum. Studies must be prepared for the 1994 Yearbook. Other tasks include processing the 1867-1900 materials for the national chronology and completing the data collection for the period 1901-1918. Expansion of the data base and the library must continue, and a 220
