Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1996
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Mrs Gergely Kovács The Activity of the Foundation of the Postal and Telecommunications Museums in 1996 The Foundation The management tasks were dominated by efforts to resolve the shortage of working space, modernize working methods, and update the museum rules and regulations. • Antenna Hungária PLC prepared in February 1996, as a contribution to the Foundation, the study plan for converting the premises of the Erzsébetváros Telephone Exchange to museum purposes. This would expand the Stamp Museum’s storage and display areas. It could also accommodate the museum collections (libraries, archives) and workshops (photographic, design, restoration), which would operate more smoothly if combined, and provide exhibition space for the Postal Museum’s power-supply and data-transmission equipment. • The Real Estate Directorate of Matáv PLC (Hungarian Telecom), in conjunction with the Ministry of Transport, Telecommunications and Water Management, agreed to hand over gratis, for museum purposes, the parts of the premises not required by the Ministry. Although the Ministry did not exclude the possibility of partially meeting the museums’ needs, it has yet to designate the parts of the building for that purpose. As a condition for the expansion, it requested that the museum areas be completely separated from the Ministry’s. • While these protracted, uncertain negotiations continued, work began at the Ministry’s insistence on dismantling the Erzsébetváros Telephone Exchange. Several pieces of equipment of historical importance had to be placed in museum storage. • After the closure of the telecommunications laboratory at the István Széchenyi College in Győr, the installations donated to the Postal Museum were dismantled and brought to Budapest. There was no hope of accommodating these in the Museum’s stores. The Pest Telephone Directorate responded to the Foundation’s plight by making some storage space available at the Csepel Telephone Works. This makes an ideal, if not officially sanctioned store. • In exchange for the premises occupied by the Documentation Collection in Róna utca, the Real Estate Directorate of Matáv converted an attic area at the Rákospalota programme-controlled telephone exchange. This allows more uniform storage conditions, some rationalization of the stores, and easier processing of the material. • Several, so far fruitless attempts have been made to exchange the basement stores (in Andrássy út and Peterdy utca, at Post Office No. 5). The task is urgent if the condition of the material stored is to be protected. • Antenna Hungária made additional exhibition area available to the Foundation at the Diósd Radio Station, to accommodate large objects. 300
