Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2006

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and enriches the personality. The museum begins its effort at the start of the school year by receiving groups of children, organizing special programmes for children and by willingly participating in youth philatelic events at the venue of various stamp exhibitions and philatelic camps. It continues to focus on attracting young people when organizing the Museum Maydays, which it has done for about a decade. In addition, it maintains a Philatelic Club for Young People, which has been operating successfully for four years. To continue along these lines and expand youth projects it applied for a grant in November 2005 with a proposal the Hungarian Postal Services was happy to support. The result was a programme called Children ’s Wednesdays at the Stamp Museum. The author describes the details of these programmes, the participants, and the types of activity conducted.

Jenő Szabó: Museum Midsummer’s Night at the Stamp Museum

The first time the Stamp Museum participated in the Museum Midsummer’s Night programme was in 2006. We chose to participate in the hope that the museum would be able to profit from the high level of audience interest in attending these late-night programmes. The Stamp Museum’s primary goal was to increase general knowledge of its existence and enhance its popularity with the public. Compared to that, the revenue opportunity was secondary, though not to be ignored. It endeavoured to compile its programmes in conformity with the nature and opportunities of the museum. In retrospect, we might say that the idea had been a good one for it managed to reach all of its goals, while none became ends in themselves - for it did increase its popularity with audiences. In addition to reviewing the original and novel programmes the museum organized, the author sums up by saying that it had been worthwhile to participate in the Museum Midsummer’s Night Programme. For many visitors, this was how they learned that Budapest has a Stamp Museum. The pleasure of the people who came to the museum that night has become the most credible possible advertisement for the museum, when they speak about it to their acquaintances.

Gabriella Nikodém: The story of the First Domestic Society of Letter Stamp Collectors

The author sketched out the very first period of stamp collecting in Hungary in our 2005 Yearbook. Since the stamp-collecting story is also the story of the various philatelic groups, she now follows up with the life of the most significant stamp collecting societies. Primary among them is the First Domestic Society of Letter Stamp Collectors - LEHE - with its special history. Not only was it the first professionally organized society, one that operated comparatively well and that was well documented on long term, but it also was able to win and retain one of the highest-ranking positions among similar societies. The author begins with the foundation of the society in 1884, its connections, life, exhibitions, and programmes. In summing up, she notes that while maintaining lives and activities of their own, stamp collecting societies worked together at times to handle specific tasks, working in conjunction with one another for specific periods of time. They also established other societies to resolve various problems. LEHE, which in 1952 became the Mabéosz (Hungarian National Philatelic Society) Budapest District VIII. stamp collecting circle, has played a defining role among the multitude of stamp collecting organizations throughout its existence as an independent organization.

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