Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 2002
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The Collections The two museums have had extraordinary increases in their collections. The Stamp Museum added 73 291 items to its collection in the following breakdown: Collection of Hungarian stamps 43 735 items Collections of foreign stamps 17 633 items Miscellaneous collections 11 738 items Stamp graphics, sketches 30 items Library 155 items The Postal Museum registered the following increases to its collections: Collections of artefacts 1 904 items Collections of documents 9 400 items Library 880 items Some of the above are unique values, such as a Skoda Colonia mail collection vehicle and a privately manufactured record cutter and player. The renovation and repainting of two of the Postal Museum’s eight warehouses has begun and we have also begun to remodel a set of telecom containers into storage facilities. With funding received in competitive grants, both museums have gotten modem equipment which will speed up the process of computerizing inventories. The Stamp Museum is doing this with its own software, while the Postal Museum is using existing museum software. We have also begun storing audio and video materials in digital format. We have completed significant restoration projects. We completely restored a German-made cable-ditch digger that had been in operation since 1967, which we added to our open-air collection at Diósd, and we also restored the furnishings of the processing room at Kisújszállás, which were originally built according to the very first postal standard ever issued. Research and Scientific Operations The bulk of our research has been linked to the CD-ROM called 120 Years of Hungarian Telephony. The publication, in Hungarian and English, is made up of two million characters of text, 1100 photographs, and 27 minutes of motion pictures. It includes twelve separate studies together with a bibliography of the more significant of the thousands of studies included in volumes housed in the Postal Museum and published in professional journals. Outstanding among the best storyboards for our periodic and permanent exhibits are one for the itinerant exhibit The Hungarian Post Office’s 135 Years, and one for Telecom History Mosaics, a display at the EMITEL Telegallery at Kiskunhalas. In the foundation’s 2001 yearbook, staff at the two museums published eight studies and handled preparations for research projects connected to exhibits scheduled for 2003, including displays at the Balatonszemes Museum and the Postal Headquarters of Kőszeg. A research project involving postal workers of the world as they appear on stamps can expect to be particularly popular with audiences. 344
