PACCE - post museum

The additional location I went to for the PACCE project was the Budapest Post Museum.  The museum was all about Hungarian post, telegraph, telephone and radio history. It was a small museum and they didn’t seem to get many visitors but it was a very interesting place.  The museum’s collection was started in 1881 and was originally only postal material.  In 1887 the post and telegraph offices merged which lead to the combined museum obviously being called the post museum.  One of the most interesting facts to me was that Hungary was the first postal service in Europe to start using a motor car for postal deliveries before that it was all done on bikes.  We also learned about the telegraph and telephone services in Hungary and even got to use old typewriters and telephone systems while there.  The last section of the museum discussed the radio and the construction of the cigar shaped antenna in 1933. I also went to the Gellert baths with the first wave pool and the pinball museum which were not directly related because of their lack of information but worth a mention because they were very cool sites.