Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2005
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and completing updates at the Stamp museum which was 75 years old in the autumn. The Hungarian Postal Service helped with the latter with HUF 10 million in targeted support. It was used to install marble flooring in the ground floor reception area, on the stairs leading to the upper floor, and in the vestibule and the exhibition hall on the upper floor. Updates included rebuilding the lighting and expanding the collection area, as well as establishing a small galley kitchen, and restroom facilities. The working rooms in the museum were painted and the hardwood floors were treated. Work with the collections The Stamp Museum’s collections were enhanced with the following items: Collection of Hungarian stamps 38 571 Collection of foreign stamps 23 902 Miscellaneous collections 1 831 Library 109 The Postal Museum’s collections with augmented with the following items: Collection of artefacts 230 Collection of documents 1 976 Miscellaneous collections 256 Library 94 The idea of packaging artefacts belonging to the Postal Museum at the warehouse on Gyáli Road, supposed to have been done by students from the Tivadar Puskás School, proved a failure, but museum staff cleaned and wrapped the smaller items, getting them ready to move. Both museums did outstanding work in protecting and restoring items. The Stamp Museum found a way to display printing materials that had been at risk in old storage facilities and the Postal Museum restored the mobile post office vehicle as well as other vehicles stored in the garage at Balatonszemes. Lists of artefacts located at the various display sites and the journal showing how, when, and where collections are moved was put on our internal computer network to help with the collection work and to give all-round information to museum staff when checking up on rural exhibition sites. Scientific work Doing the groundwork for the new permanent exhibitions required a great deal of research at both museums. The Stamp Museum opened a new permanent exhibit entitled Universe-Stamp History, which included stamps from its international collection issued between 1986 and 1998 and stamps issued up to 2005 from its Hungarian collection. In addition to the 550 000 stamps on show, this is the first opportunity visitors had to see lithographic stones used to print stamp designs that were submitted to postal competitions but never issued as actual stamps. The presentation of the special stamps as well as the setting up of a separate wall in the antechamber in memory of donors who made significant donations to the museum’s collections are all the result of a great deal of postal, 239
