Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1996
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• Special display cabinets need to be made for individual smaller collections (commemorative postmarks at the Stamp Museum; the collections of seals, stamps and medals at the Postal Museum). • Dust-free storage must be provided individually for the especially valuable objects and documents in the collection stores. • Restoration work must include examining exhibited items (such as the world map at the Stamp Museum) and performing the necessary restoration and conservation on them. • A plan of action and budget must be prepared for restoring and storing the Stamp Museum’s collection of press tools. • Estimates, with several years’ guarantee, must be obtained for the renovation work on the stamp display cabinets. Only then can an informed choice be made between renovation and the purchase of new, modem display cabinets. Exhibitions The 15-18 exhibitions a year, produced by the museums themselves, place great strains on the design staff. Many of the ad hoc changes that are regularly made during the production process can be attributed to late completion of the exhibition script. To reduce this undesirable occurrence to a minimum, a system has been introduced of in-house adjudication of production scripts, 60 days before the projected opening. The Stamp Museum plans a commemorative exhibition devoted to Lili Sztéhlo Arkay. It will take part in two exhibitions abroad, representing the Hungarian postal authorities (Norvex ’97 and the Moscow International Stamp Exhibition). Air mail exhibits will be provided for the stamp exhibition to be held at the András Jósa Museum. Stamps depicted Classical Greek art, from the Rezső Soó collection, will be shown at the Diligence Exhibition Hall in Debrecen. On World Telecommunications Day, the Postal Museum will open an exhibition entitled Tele Jubilees. This will mark the centenary of the discovery of the electron, the 150th anniversary of Edison’s birth, and the centenary of the birth of Kálmán Tihanyi and Béla Tomcsányi. The Museum also plans exhibitions entitled Letters and Telegrams and Globetrotting Telephone Cards. It intends to send on tour the exhibition showing the Hungarian Post from the Millenary to the 1100th Anniversary of the Hungarian Settlement. The display at the Radio and Television Museum in Diósd will be augmented to mark the 40th anniversary of public television broadcasting in Hungary. • Apart from regular annual maintenance at the exhibition sites, internal renovation will be required at Balatonszemes in 1997. It has become necessary to prepare survey drawings for renovating and extending this historic building, so that the actual work can begin. • The local authority of Budapest’s First District has offered the Stamp Museum an exhibition area in the Buda Castle District. Once the details have been clarified, a contract can be concluded and the exhibition designed and installed. • A thematic exhibition plan will be needed for the interior design of a Tele Gallery to be created when the Matáv headquarters at Budapest I, Krisztina körűt 55, are altered. 319
