Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1995
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The Postal Museum intends to obtain portable frames, like the ones for the Marconi exhibition, to make a touring exhibition of ten easily shipped and assembled tableaux, entitled Hungarian Telecommunications from, the Millenary Year to the Eleventh Centenary. We intend to commemorate the work of Kálmán Tihanyi with an exhibition marking the centenary of his birth. Tihanyi was the Hungarian inventor of electronic television. The exhibition will use material being made available to us from the United States by his daughter. The Stamp Museum will hold a retrospective ofÁdám Cziglényi’s applied graphics and a temporary exhibition, From the Conquest to the Present Day—Hungary’s History on Stamps. The museum will prepare materials for international stamp exhibitions by the Hungarian Postal Directorate, and contribute displays to the world meeting of St Gabriel’s Stamp Collectors’Association in Kecskemét, the World Conference on Hungarian Stamp and Postal History, the celebrations at Pannonhalma Abbey, and Mabéosz (National Federation of Hungarian Stamp Collectors) exhibitions. Further material from the Rezső Soó Collection will be shown at the Diligence Exhibition Room. Scientific activity The tasks include preparing the national postal chronology for the years 1919-45, compiling a catalogue of the Postal Museum’s map collection, compiling and publishing the material for the Foundation’s 1995 Yearbook, and writing exhibition scenarios, guides and film scripts. At the Stamp Museum, the separate Hôzer Collection and the collection of foreign first-day covers and commemorative sheets will be placed on computer. Within the professions We have traditionally joined in professional activities by our founders, ranging from the issue of stamps, to events on the world days. The Postal and Banking Specialized Secondary School in Budapest Irányi utca intends to adopt the name of Mihály Gervay. We would like to contribute by placing a memorial tablet on the house where Gervay lived in nearby Havas utca. We would like to make the activities for school students a regular occurrence, primarily for the students at the three specialist schools in Budapest. This will be done through programmes at the Telephone Museum (Go Global), the Radio and Television Museum (Students on Radio), the Stamp Museum (Around the World with Stamps), and the Postal Museum (Let’s Walk into the Millenary Post Office). To improve public relations, we must work harder to satisfy the demands of museum visitors. New entrance tickets, concertina booklets and guides (in colour and several languages) need to be prepared. For temporary exhibitions, such needs must be supplied with booklets prepared in-house. The commonest request from visitors has long been for souvenirs or replicas of typical objects and documents shown at exhibitions. This demand is especially strong among 302
