Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1995
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The scheduled protected relics held at post offices, telecommunications facilities and transmitter stations must be inspected, and if their condition so requires, delivered to the museums. A start must be made to preparing photocopies of specialist papers and journals and unique specialist books absent from the libraries of the museums, but held by the National Széchényi Library. Expansion of the open-air collections (vehicles, antennae, telecom equipment and appliances, etc.) must continue. Funding for purchases of articles and documents, including subsequent pieces in the series of historical tapestries, must be ensured at the same level as in previous years. Restoration and aids to presentation The restoration work must be concentrated on the stock of historical books, and on the items and documents due for exhibition. The overcrowding of the stores prevents cleaning and conserving work taking place there. The staff handling the collections must therefore draw up in the first quarter of 1996 a list of the items requiring urgent attention, so that the work can be organized on this basis. Reconstruction work in 1996 applies mainly to the new exhibition at Opusztaszer, notably the telephone news dispenser network, studio and receiving equipment, and to the apparatus providing guided tours in several languages. The aids to presentation are a primary attraction at our museums. They include some modem telematic appliances. Several telecom museums (in Lisbon, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Berlin and Pleumeur Bodou) have joined the Go Global programme, launched by the British Telecom Museum in London. This is based on exchanges of fax messages between school students, tied to educational activities. Our Telephone Museum in Budapest joined this scheme in November last year. Linder the programme, the ISDN network is being steadily installed everywhere. It would be desirable to introduce exchanges of fax messages on our own network as well (between the Telephone, Postal, Radio and Television, and Diligence museums), by obtaining the requisite equipment. The precise restoration tasks with the collection of printing equipment at the Postal Museum are being assessed with specialist assistance. This includes the continuing renovation of the Philatelic World Map and the sixty-year-old display cabinets. Exhibitions A salient task is to prepare by the end of April 1996 a new permanent exhibition at Opusztaszer, with funding of HUF 0.5 mn gained in the competition for events to mark the 1100th anniversary of the Hungarian Conquest. This includes complete renovation inside the building (flooring repairs, painting and decorating, and repairs and replacements for door and window catches and ironwork) and new installations and presentation aids for the exhibition. 301
