Postal museum

The National Postal Museum at Postal Square Building in Washington, D.C., United States

The Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History at Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, US

A postal museum is a museum dedicated to the display of objects relating to the postal service. A subcategory of postal museums are philatelic museums, which focus on philately and postage stamps.

List of postal and philatelic museums

Africa

Egypt

• The Post Museum[1]

Ethiopia

• Ethiopian National Postal Museum[2]

Kenya

• German Post Office Museum [1][3]

Mauritius

The Blue Penny Museum in Port Louis, Mauritius

• Blue Penny Museum
• Mauritius Postal Museum

Morocco

• Postal Museum[4]

South Africa

• South African Post Office Museum[5]

Americas

Brazil

• Museu Tempostal [it]
• Philatelic and Numismatic Brazilian Museum

Canada

First Toronto Post Office in Toronto, Canada

• Canadian Postal Museum (closed)
• First Toronto Post Office

Costa Rica

• Museo Filatélico de Costa Rica

Cuba

• Cuban Postal Museum[6]

Curaçao

• Postal Museum Curaçao

Guatemala

• Guatemalan Postal & Philatelic Museum[7]

Mexico

• Philatelic Museum of Oaxaca – Mexico[8]

Peru

National Postal and Philatelic Museum at the Casa de Correos y Telegrafos in Lima, Peru

• National Postal and Philatelic Museum

United States

• Florida Postal Museum
• Franklin Post Office
• Garnier Post Office Museum
• Leon Myers Stamp Center
• National Philatelic Museum (closed)
• National Postal Museum
• Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History
• The Museum of Postal History[9]
• US Postal Museum[10]

Asia

Bangladesh

• Philatelic Museum

Bhutan

• Bhutan Postal Museum.[11]

China

Shanghai Postal Museum at the General Post Office Building in Shanghai, China

• China National Postal and Stamp Museum[12]
• Shanghai Postal Museum

Hong Kong

• The Postal Gallery

India

• National Philatelic Museum
• Postal Museum (Kolkata)
• Postal Museum (Mysore)[13]
• Sandesh Museum of Communication, Bangalore[14]

Indonesia

• Indonesian Stamp Museum[15]

Israel

• Alexander Museum of Postal History and Philately

Japan

• Communications Museum of Japan – Ote-machi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
• Postal Museum Japan[16]
• Philatelic Culture Museum (Arima, Kobe)[17]
• Philatelic Museum (Mejiro, Tokyo)[18]

Malaysia

The Malacca Stamp Museum in Malacca City, Malaysia

• Malacca Stamp Museum

North Korea

• Korea Stamp Museum

Pakistan

• Pakistan Postal Museum – Karachi
• Siddiqui Philatelic Museum, 22-J-Z Madina Town, Faisalabad^[citation needed]

Saudi Arabia

• The Postal Museum, Riyadh[19]

Singapore

• Singapore Philatelic Museum

South Korea

• Damyang Stamp Museum[20]
• Postal Museum, Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do[21]
• Korea Postage Stamp Museum [ko], Jung-gu, Seoul

Sri Lanka

• Postal museum

Taiwan

The Postal Museum in Taipei, Taiwan

• Chunghwa Postal Museum

Thailand

• Sam Sen Nai Philatelic Museum, Phaya Thai District, Bangkok, Thailand
• Chiang Mai Philatelic Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand[22]

United Arab Emirates

• Emirates Postal Museum[23]

Uzbekistan

• The Museum of Communication History in Uzbekistan

Europe

Andorra

Museu Postal d'Andorra in Andorra

• Museu Postal d'Andorra [ca]

Austria

• Historisches Postamt Küb [de]

Belgium

• Postal Museum of Belgium

Croatia

• Croatian Postal and Telecommunications Service Museum, Jurisiceva 13, HR–10 001 Zagreb, Croatia[24]

Cyprus

• Cyprus Postal Museum

Czech Republic

• Prague Postal Museum[25]

Denmark

• Danish Post & Tele Museum, Copenhagen[26]
• Post and Telegraph History Museum, Århus[27]

Estonia

• ENM Postal Museum – [2], Muuseumi tee 2, 60532 Tartu, Estonia

Finland

• Postimuseo [fi]

France

• Musée de La Poste

Germany

Museum für Kommunikation in Hamburg, Germany

• Iserlohner Museum für Handwerk und Postgeschichte [de]
• Museum für Kommunikation Berlin [de]
• Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt
• Museum für Kommunikation Hamburg
• Museum of Communication, Nuremberg, Germany
• Philatelic Archive in Bonn
• Postmuseum Rheinhessen [de]

Greece

• Postal & Philatelic Museum of Greece

Hungary

• Postal Museum of Hungary

Ireland

• An Post Museum (closed)

Italy

The Postal and Telegraphic Museum of Central Europe in Trieste, Italy

• Museo internazionale dell'immagine postale [it]
• Museo storico della comunicazione [it]
• Museum of Tasso family and Postal History, Camerata Cornello (Bergamo)[28]
• Postal and Telegraphic Museum of Central Europe [it]

Liechtenstein

• Postal Museum

Luxembourg

• PostMusée [de]

Malta

The Malta Postal Museum in Valletta, Malta

• Malta Postal Museum[29][30]

Monaco

• Museum of Stamps and Coins

Netherlands

• Museum voor Communicatie [nl]

Poland

• Muzeum Poczty i Telekomunikacji we Wrocławiu [pl]

Russia

A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications in Saint Petersburg, Russia

• A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications

San Marino

• Museo del Francobollo e della Moneta[31]

Slovenia

• Museum of Post and Telecommunications

Spain

• Postal and Telegraphic Museum of Spain
• La Virreina Centro de la Imagen

Sweden

• Postmuseum [sv]

Switzerland

• Museum of Communication Bern

Turkey

• Istanbul Postal Museum
• PTT Postage Stamp Museum

Ukraine

• Lviv Postal Museum
• Post Station in Nizhyn

United Kingdom

• Bath Postal Museum
• British Library Philatelic Collections
• Colne Valley Postal Museum[32]
• Isle of Wight Postal Museum[33]
• Oakham Treasures, Gordano, Avon[34] housing the former collection held at Inkpen Postal Museum
• The Museum of Philatelic History[35] at The Royal Philatelic Society London
• The Postal Museum, London

See also

• Mail

References

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2. "National Postal Museum". Ethiopian Museums Support Association. Archived from the original on 25 June 2016.
3. "Lamu-German Post Office Historic Background". National Museums of Kenya. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016.
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12. "中国邮政邮票博物馆". May 26, 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-05-26.
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16. "About Postal Museum Japan". Postal Museum Japan. Archived from the original on 8 February 2016.
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19. "Postal Museum". AsiaRooms. TUI Travel PLC. Archived from the original on 2012-03-13. Retrieved 2008-09-25. The Postal Museum is one [of] the most famous museums that one can find in the city of Riyadh. [..] The museum and its exhibits are maintained by the Ministry of Post, Telegraph and Telephones.
20. "전남박물관미술관협회". www.jnmuseum.or.kr. Archived from the original on 2019-01-02.
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23. "دار الطوابع". Emirates Postal Museum (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 16 July 2016.
24. "HPT muzej - Početna stranica". February 22, 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-02-22.
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26. "Post & Tele Museum - the museum". ptt-museum.dk. Retrieved 2010-10-11. The Post & Tele Museum is Denmark's national museum of post and telecommunications. The museum is a foundation set up in 1996 by TDC A/S and Post Danmark A/S and was previously called Dansk Post og Telegrafmuseum (The Danish Post and Telegraph Museum)
27. Nørby, Toke. "The Postal Museum in Århus, Denmark". Retrieved 2008-09-25. in Kannikegade 16, st. th., DK-8000 Århus C [..] This old post office belongs to "De Post- og Telegrafhistoriske Samlinger i Aarhus"
28. "Descrizione". www.museodeitasso.com.
29. "MaltaPost launches the Malta Postal Museum". MaltaPost. 17 June 2016. Archived from the original on 21 June 2016.
30. "Maltapost launches the Malta Postal Museum". Times of Malta. 19 June 2016. Archived from the original on 21 June 2016.
31. "Musei di stato".
32. "Colne Valley Postal History Museum". privately owned Postal History Museum in the heart of East Anglia [..] The museum houses the second-largest private collection of Post Boxes in the UK [..] there is no general public access other than by prior arrangement
33. "The Museum Site". Isle of Wight Postal Museum/A&K Reeder. Archived from the original on 2008-07-08. Retrieved 2008-09-25. probably the largest private collection of post boxes and postal equipment in the United Kingdom [..] The Museum is situated near Newport
34. "Oakham Treasures". www.oakhamtreasures.co.uk.
35. "Museum". www.rpsl.org.uk.

External links

• International Postal Museum – Online
• Museum of Philately – Online
• Postal Museum (London)