Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1996
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partner museums in Germany issued an invitation for an exchange of experience. Seven staff members of the Postal Museum took part in this in June. Instead of a planned visit to the Technical Museum in Vienna, where construction work was incomplete, seven staff of the Stamp Museum and the Postal Museum visited postal and telecommunications museums in Frankfurt and Nuremberg in October. The Stamp Museum’s exhibition of the work of Éva Zombory was lent to the American Hungarian Foundation in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where it was re-erected by the exhibition’s designer. Through foreign contacts, the Stamp Museum acquired over 4000 Chinese and South African stamps hitherto missing from its collections. The Foundation’s museums were visited by several foreign museum curators. They were seeking advice for museums now being founded by the Slovenian, Slovakian and Lithuanian postal authorities. Budapest, December 1996 & Mrs János Solymosi: ‘História Dooms’ - The Stamp Museum, 1996 The Stamp Museum had a busy programme of events in 1996. These tied in with the 1100th anniversary of the Hungarian Settlement. The museum mounted 18 exhibitions, and helped with two others, by lending materials and providing organizational assistance. It took part in three international stamp exhibitions, winning the Vermei Medal for its display at the exhibition of sports designs in Athens. The collections were enlarged by a number of gifts. Relations with the public were fostered through regular tours of the exhibitions, activities and events. Premises were provided throughout the year for the meetings of Mafitt (the Hungarian Philatelic Scientific Society). The curator of the museum participated regularly as a judge on the Stamp Committee of the Hungarian Post. All members of staff entered for the Futics Competition announced by the trustees of the Lajos Futics Foundation. The museum continued to nurture its relations with postal authorities abroad, and several delegations were received. Staff took part in a study trip to Germany, and represented the museum at several symposia in Hungary. The press and the media received regular information on events at the museum, which were reported in numerous newspaper articles and radio and television programmes. Gabriella Nikodém: Éva Zombory’s Exhibition The life’s work of Éva Zombory, stamp designer and graphic artist, was displayed to the Hungarian public at the Stamp Museum from June 2, 1995 to January 31,1996. It was then transferred, at the request of the President of the American Hungarian Foundation, to the Foundation’s headquarters in New Bmnswick, New Jersey, where it reopened in March 1996. 305
