Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1997
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The mobile post office at the Paks open-air display had deteriorated for lack of an attendant. Restoration was completed and the coach put on public display again in June. The foundation received a visit from the mayor of Budapest’s 6th District, who viewed the exhibitions and .the offices and storage rooms, recognizing the storage problems that the museum faces. The telecommunications-history collection was moved during the month, with help from secondary-school students, and placed in boxes in the new store at Rákoskeresztúr. August saw the opening of a successful travelling exhibition, ‘The Hungarian Post from the Millenary to the 1100th Anniversary of the Hungarian Conquest’. This was shown in Debrecen, at the Zugló post office in Budapest, and at Kiskunhalas. The curator attended the annual congress of the International Association of Transport and Communications Museums (IATM) in Madrid in September. Museum staff dealing with telecommunications history had a successful collection trip. The foundation lent items for the exhibition to mark the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Siemens firm. Museum staff attended and contributed a lecture at a conference on research into Hungarian border castles, held at the István Dobó Museum in Eger. The young staff who had just joined the museum presented the first exhibition of their own. The roof of the Postal Museum at Balatonszemes was replaced. Another display of material from the Sopron collection was presented during the ‘Journey around Matáv’ events in Tapolca. After an invitation from the new postal museum in Trieste, the museum had the opportunity to present a turn-of-the-century post and telegraph office of the Royal Hungarian Post, as part of the display showing the postal history of Central Europe. According to the staff member attending the opening, the Hungarian part of the exhibition was received with great enthusiasm and mentioned in the press. In an exchange of experience, the foundation received a staff member from the Finnish Radio and Television Museum, who explained that the Finnish radio museum, like Hungary’s, occupies the premises of a former radio-transmission station. The annual collection tour was organized in the Budapest and Budapest District postal areas. The stores of two Budapest post offices were examined, and collections were also made in Pest and Fejér counties. An exhibition of telegraph history opened to mark the 150th anniversary of the first telegraph line in Hungary. The museum took part in preparing the city-history display at the stations of the original underground railway line in Budapest. The Postal Museum received display space at the station adjacent to it, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út. The final event of the year was the Advent Salon, an exhibition of arts and crafts. Piroska Farkas Krizsák: Tele-jubilees Behind the title of this exhibition lay several important anniversaries. Both Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Alva Edison, whose inventions revolutionized technical development, were bom 150 years ago. It was the centenary of the discovery of the electron, which led to the new science of electronics. The work of the discoverer, Joseph John Thomson, was also covered in the exhibition, which opened on World Telecommunications Day. Nearer home, two outstanding Hungarian engineers, BélaTomcsányi and Kálmán Tihanyi, were born a century ago. Tomcsányi, an engineer at the Postal Experimental Station, worked on the first Hungarian Radio studios and then directed them. Tihanyi 256
