Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2005
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the staircases which are in perfect condition, were renovated between 1987 and 1990 by the Postal Museum at the cost of HUF 14 million, so it is thanks to the museum that they still exist. In all, the works of art on the first floor and on the staircase have a value of HUF 2.5-3 billion. This is important because any property given to the foundation as a place to move the museum must not simply by equal in space, it must also be equivalent in value. The only way to move the museum and the works of art within it to any other building in a frequented tourist area is if the location is shaped to meet the museum’s special requirements. For that reason, the museum - with the participation of its management and curators - must prepare a plan of permanent exhibits that will mesh with an installation plan for the interior decorations, and this must be done in a thematic breakdown. The economic management group and the curators will have to design the storage capacities and space requirements of the facilities where future collections will be stored. It is necessary to introduce the same accounting and administrative rules to the management of the two museums, and an effort must be made to integrate various tasks. One job for museum managers is to revisit the experience of the first year using a computerized accounting system and conduct an analysis to see which staff members can be reassigned to other jobs. The Foundation is authorizing a responsible systems’ operator (Sysop) to keep websites up to date and it will be the job of the museum directors to name the staff members responsible for providing the materials. The Stamp Museum has submitted a bid for the prize Museum of the Year, 2005. Collection-related tasks • Responsible staff at the Stamp Museum will have to decide when and how they plan to shift to use of the Michel-type catalogue. • The data needed to register the stamp designs issued by the Hungarian Postal Service between 1996 and 2005 must be requested in writing, and the response only will be certified as authentic if it comes from the stamp management department of the Hungarian Postal Service, which is the department that orders the stamp designs. • The collection of large-format designs and blueprints, and of posters will be moved to a new warehouse. • The collection of postal history artefacts owned by the postal museum is to undergo a new inventory process to get it up to date, which will begin this year. • Random checks of the document collection will have to be made to ascertain whether the inventories meet with the specifications of registration rules. • As part of preparations for moving the collection on telecom history, it is necessary to prepare a list of the large objects (including dimensions and weight) and to prepare a furnishing plan, showing where they will be placed. • Restoring operations are most urgent for the certificate and other written material section of the document collection and a phased plan that includes the list of artefacts that will be restored needs to be prepared. • We need to revisit the documents in the archives at Kert Alley. Some of these documents - the ones that are not decisive to telecom history - must be donated to the Hungarian National Archives. 248
