Giovanni Pinna Dr. Mr. Pinna, I much regret that we couldn’t meet at the advisory board meeting in Paris, where I could have expressed my personal and ICOM’s support in connection with your nomination for the title „world president of the ICOM”. I have read with great interest your active world e-mail correspondence during last months with a lot of interesting ideas. I tried to spread them all over the country among ICOM members – as ICOM Hungarian chair. Thank you very much for your kind invitation for the ICOM Italia International Conference in the subject of disabled people and cultural heritage on 28-29 November, 2003. It was especially a very great pleasure for me because our museum in Hungary was among the first to develop its services towards disabled people. A wheel-chair ramp was built at the entrance of the museum about 20 years ago. Disabled people may enter free of charge into the museum. There has been a separate chamber exhibition for blind people since 1993: they can get hold the objects and interpret them. There are descriptions in Braille and we have also an English leaflet about the museum also in Braille. Our institute has a valid cooperation agreement with the world famous International Peto Institute (pontos neve: Peto András Institute for Conductive Education of the Motor Disabled and Conductors College – kell ennyire részletesen?) for more than 20 years, with the Hungarian Association of Blind People and with other similar charity organizations. There is also a study-room for deaf people where they can get acquainted with the most important exhibitions of our museum in the course of special demonstrations and by the help of sign-language interpreter film-shooting. We have a service especially for blind visitors at the entrance of museum from 1998, and this year also from the entrance of the exhibition units : a map plotting board in Braille gives help to the visitors at the territory of the museum of more than 60 hectar. An open air theatre „Skanzen-Amfiteátrum” has been operated since 2002 in the museum which can be visited also by the wheel-chair users by the help of a special infrastructure. Dear Mr. Pinna, I hope these examples can prove that the Hungarian Open Air Museum considers very important to convey its cultural heritage towards disabled people. We maintain very characteristic and tragic but uplifting photos, snapshots about our disabled fellows who understood the message of our museum through the tools and communication used by us. On the basis of the above – if you are interested in the topic – I am pleased to take part at the conference with a presentation. If our results could have been of interest to you, please do not hesitate to contact us. You can get more information about our museum by the help of our web side: www.skanzen.hu. Hoping to hear from you soon, I remain with best wishes: Dr. Miklós Cseri director chairman of ICOM Hungary *** - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Change ICOM-L subscription options, unsubscribe, and search the archives at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/icom-l.html