Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1996
Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló angol nyelven
(City Park). This had been designed by Tivadar König Jr and mounted in the Postal and Telegraph Hall, opposite the site where the Transport Museum stands today. At the exhibition a hundred years ago, some attempt was made to remedy the scarcity of the items of postal history available by using coloured graphs to demonstrate postal development since 1868. It was thought that the graphs had been lost, but they turned up recently in the collections of the Transport Museum, whose curator, Dr András Katona, presented them to the Postal Museum at the 1996 opening ceremony, along with some other postal documents of the period. The characteristics of the Italian-made installations used for the exhibition (which can be erected in a matter of minutes) called for the material covering the century to be divided into four parts. This turned out to correspond well with four historically manifest stages of postal history, each lasting 25 years. The four groups of eight tableaux present all the essential changes that have marked out the Royal Hungarian Post, and its successor the Hungarian Post, and distinguish it from postal authorities elsewhere in the world. Mrs Gergely Kovács: The Futics Competition, 1996 The Futics Prize announced by the Lajos Futics Foundation in 1996 was designated for appreciation of the work of museum staff employed by the Foundation of the Postal and Telecommunications Museums, with the approval of the trustees. The first prize was set at HUF 50,000 and the second at HUF 25,000. All professional museum staff working on the Foundation’s collections were called upon to enter the closed competition, which took place in two rounds. For the first round, contestants had to submit short entries describing their collections, the deadline being November 20, 1996. These included basic information about the collection: the number of certified items in the inventory, the number of duplicates, accessions in 1995 and 1996, the amount of material restored and in need of restoration, the position with scientific processing of the collection (descriptive dockets), the unique items in the collection, presentation of the collection in exhibitions and publications in 1995 and 1996, and plans for increasing, processing and presenting the collection. The second round took place on December 5 and 6 in the Stamp Museum and the Postal Museum, in the presence of all the contestants. Here each contestant had to give an oral presentation of the collection and of a representative item from it, and answer their colleagues’ questions. Each contestant then received a voting paper, and was asked to rate his or her colleagues’ work on a five-point scale, based on the written entries and oral presentations. The 13 contestants entered with the 28 collections they handle. The prize-giving ceremony was held on the afternoon of December 6, during a meeting of the trustees. The first prize went to Erzsébet Angyal, and the second prize was divided between Gabriella Nikodém and Dr Kálmán Sebestyén. József Hajdú: Advent Salon Pursuing a tradition of art exhibitions (including recent appearances by Pál C. Molnár and Viola Berki), the Foundation invited several fine and applied artists connected with it to 311
