Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1995
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József Hajdú: Art Exhibitions at the Postal Museum Apart from exhibitions in its field, the Postal Museum in 1995 held two art exhibitions in the Music Room, devoted to work by Pál C. Molnár and Viola Berki. The life’s work of both these artists (already concluded in Molnár’s case) includes pieces with postal connections. An interesting aspect of the Molnár exhibition is that the three vast panels showing the 15th-century King Matthias hunting, on loan from the Pannónia Hotel, gained scheduled status from the Hungarian National Gallery during the exhibition. The oil paintings Bethlehem Night (1927) and Flight into Egypt (1941) were shown with the 1994 Christmas commemorative stamps depicting them. These were issued by Hungarian Post PLC on the centenary of the artist’s birth. The idea for Viola Berki’s exhibition at the Museum came from the six designs for greetings telegrams. These were entered for a competition announced by the Hungarian Post in the 1970s, but never used, which meant that they were being seen by the public for the first time. After the exhibition, the artist presented them to the Museum. The exhibition also showed that Viola Berki draws in her work on the traditions of Orthodox icons, Late Baroque folk art, Romanticism and Classicism. Ibolya Bartók: Marconi in Photographs at the Postal Museum The 1995 centenary of the discovery of radio was marked by a series of events worldwide, involving several countries. As part of the commemorations, the Guglielmo Marconi Foundation of Italy mounted a centenary exhibition, of which a travelling display was compiled with support from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This was shown at the Museum on November 3-15, 1995, after Vienna and before Bucharest. The six tableaux of the exhibition allowed the main stages in the life and work of the Italian physicist and inventor Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) to be traced. Marconi, as a young physicist experimenting with the electromagnetic waves described by Heinrich Hertz, invented wireless telegraphy in 1895. Later experiments by Hertz, Marconi, Alexander Meissner and others led to the development of wireless radio. The centenary pictures included only a few details of Marconi’s life. However, the foundation set up to preserve and foster Marconi’s legacy is based at the Griffone Villa, once the Marconi family’s country home. This includes a permanent exhibition of the inventor’s life and scientific work, and the experimental apparatus and articles he used. Klára Pataki: ‘Our Radio’ Competition for Children One of the pleasantest events of the radio jubilee year was the competition run by the Museum for nursery, primary and secondary-school pupils. This was published in the weekly paper Köznevelés (Public Education) and on the programme Tévé Téka (TV File). Nursery-school entrants were asked for drawings and tape recordings, and primary-school children for drawings and a one-page piece of original writing entitled An Unforgettable 294
