Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1999-2000
Beszámolók és tervek - Tartalmi összefoglaló angol nyelven
Mrs. Gergely Kovács Annual Report of the Foundation of the Postal and Telecommunication Museum The central part of Foundation activity in 1999 involved collecting artifacts, evolving development plans, and designing publications. In September and October of 1999, the Budapest Municipal Prosecutor’s Office investigated the portion of our activity that qualifies the Foundation as a special public service organisation. Management and Administration • Museum warehouses were emptied and/or relocated (Diosd, Embedded Control Centre at Csepel), and new warehousing opportunities for archiving were provided through the installation of telephone containers. • Archiving Committee work was organised to meet MATAV CEO Instruction No. 138/ 1998, which included elaborating plans for the MATAV Museum and Tele-Museum in an empty building at 20-22, Gyali Street. • Guidelines for the designing tender to enlarge the Stamp Museum were elaborated, and a role was undertaken in judging the bids. • Study plans were ordered for development and enlargement operations including:- a new garage for the Radio and Television Museum,- enlargement and renovation of the Postal Museum at Balatonszemes,- renovation of the interior of the Postal Museum exhibition halls including ordering the design of wallpaper, and presenting it to the Authority for the Protection of Monuments and Memorials for approval, and- renovation of the interior of the Museum of Telephony. • Work was organised for the preparation of a CD-ROM on the history of the telegraph, being made with the support of the Ministry of Transport, Telecommunications and Water Management, and included coordinating the efforts of several museum areas. • The administrative and operative prerequisites for qualification as a special public service organisation were introduced and organised, and the Foundation held the periodic meetings of the combined control and supervisory committee. • Regarding economic operation, the Foundation was overly thrifty and, therefore, was late in completing some of the planned tasks because the 1999 budget was not approved until October, all of which resulted in some work not being finished until 2000. Work on the report of the first half-year of operation was begun on 1 October 1999, and the finalised balance sheet, to include a public service and auditor’s report, will be finished by the deadline of 30 April 2000. Work Regarding the Collections • The inventory-audits of the Hungarian Contemporary I. and the Asia stamp collections have been completed. 235
