A postal museum is a
museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make th ...
dedicated to the display of objects relating to the
postal service
The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid-19th century, national postal syst ...
. A subcategory of postal museums are philatelic museums, which focus on
philately
Philately (; ) is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection and appreciation of stamps and other philatelic products. Philately involves more than just stamp collecting or the study of postage; it is pos ...
and
postage stamps
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail), who then affix the stamp to the f ...
.
List of postal and philatelic museums
Africa
Egypt
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The Post Museum
Ethiopia
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Ethiopian National Postal Museum
Kenya
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German Post Office Museumbr>
Mauritius
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Blue Penny Museum
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Mauritius Postal Museum
Morocco
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Postal Museum
South Africa
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South African Post Office Museum
Americas
Brazil
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Philatelic and Numismatic Brazilian Museum
Canada
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Canadian Postal Museum (closed)
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First Toronto Post Office
Toronto's First Post Office (also known as the Fourth York Post Office National Historic Site of Canada) is a historic post office in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the oldest purpose-built post office in Canada that functioned as a department ...
Costa Rica
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Museo Filatélico de Costa Rica
Cuba
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Cuban Postal Museum
Curaçao
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Postal Museum Curaçao
Guatemala
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Guatemalan Postal & Philatelic Museum
Mexico
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Philatelic Museum of Oaxaca – Mexico
Peru
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National Postal and Philatelic Museum
United States
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Florida Postal Museum
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Franklin Post Office
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Garnier Post Office Museum
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Leon Myers Stamp Center
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National Philatelic Museum (closed)
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National Postal Museum
The National Postal Museum, located opposite Union Station in Washington, D.C., United States, covers large portions of the Postal history of the United States and other countries. It was established through joint agreement between the United ...
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Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History
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The Museum of Postal History
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US Postal Museum
Asia
Bangladesh
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Philatelic Museum
Bhutan
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Bhutan Postal Museum.
China
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China National Postal and Stamp Museum
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Shanghai Postal Museum
Hong Kong
* The Postal Gallery
India
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National Philatelic Museum
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Philatelic Museum (Bangalore)
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Postal Museum (Kolkata)
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Postal Museum (Mysore)
Indonesia
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Indonesian Stamp Museum
Israel
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Alexander Museum of Postal History and Philately
Japan
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Communications Museum of Japan – Ote-machi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
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Postal Museum Japan
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Philatelic Culture Museum (
Arima, Kobe)
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Philatelic Museum (
Mejiro, Tokyo)
Malaysia
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Malacca Stamp Museum
North Korea
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Korea Stamp Museum
Pakistan
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Pakistan Postal Museum – Karachi
*Siddiqui Philatelic Museum, 22-J-Z Madina Town, Faisalabad
Saudi Arabia
*The Postal Museum, Riyadh
Singapore
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Singapore Philatelic Museum
The Singapore Philatelic Museum (Chinese: 新加坡集邮博物馆; ta, சிங்கப்பூர் அஞ்சல்தலை அருங்காட்சியகம்) is a museum about the postal history of Singapore and its stamps ...
South Korea
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Damyang Stamp Museum
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Postal Museum, Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do
* , Jung-gu, Seoul
Sri Lanka
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Postal museum
Taiwan
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Chunghwa Postal Museum
The Postal Museum () is a museum located in Zhongzheng District, Taipei, Taiwan. The museum encompasses seven floors and covers postal history, modern postal service, philately, and special exhibitions.
History
The museum opened at a location in ...
Thailand
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Sam Sen Nai Philatelic Museum,
Phaya Thai District,
Bangkok
Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated populati ...
,
Thailand
Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is b ...
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Chiang Mai Philatelic Museum,
Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai (, from th, เชียงใหม่ , nod, , เจียงใหม่ ), sometimes written as Chiengmai or Chiangmai, is the largest city in northern Thailand, the capital of Chiang Mai province and the second largest city in ...
,
Thailand
Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is b ...
United Arab Emirates
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Emirates Postal Museum
Uzbekistan
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The Museum of Communication History in Uzbekistan
Europe
Andorra
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Austria
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Belgium
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Postal Museum of Belgium
Croatia
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Croatian Postal and Telecommunications Service Museum, Jurisiceva 13, HR–10 001 Zagreb, Croatia
Cyprus
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Cyprus Postal Museum
Czech Republic
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The Postal Museum
Denmark
*Danish
Post & Tele Museum, Copenhagen
*Post and Telegraph History Museum, Århus
Estonia
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ENM Postal Museum �
Muuseumi tee 2, 60532 Tartu, Estonia
Finland
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France
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Musée de La Poste
The Musée de La Poste (La Poste's Museum) is the museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historica ...
Germany
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Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt
The Museum für Kommunikation is a museum of the history of communication in Frankfurt, Germany. It opened on 31 January 1958 under the name ''Bundespostmuseum'' (National Postal Museum) and is the oldest museum on Frankfurt's Museumsufer (Museu ...
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Museum für Kommunikation Hamburg
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Museum of Communication, Nuremberg, Germany
The Museum of Communication is co-located with the Nuremberg Transport Museum in Nuremberg, Germany. It shows various ways in which people communicate with each other.
Exhibition
The exhibition's four rooms address the subject of communic ...
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Philatelic Archive in Bonn
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Greece
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Postal & Philatelic Museum of Greece
Hungary
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Postal Museum of Hungary
Ireland
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An Post Museum (closed)
Italy
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Museum of Tasso family and Postal History,
Camerata Cornello
Camerata Cornello (Bergamasque: ) is a '' comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about northeast of Milan and about north of Bergamo.
Camerata Cornello borders the following municipalities: ...
(
Bergamo
Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Com ...
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Liechtenstein
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Postal Museum
Luxembourg
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Malta
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Malta Postal Museum
The Malta Postal Museum ( mt, Mużew tal-Posta ta' Malta) is a postal museum in Valletta, Malta. It is run by the postal operator MaltaPost, and it was inaugurated on 17 June 2016. The museum is housed in a restored 20th-century townhouse in the c ...
Monaco
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Museum of Stamps and Coins
The Museum of Stamps and Coins is located in the Fontvieille section of Monaco. It tells the postal history of the principality, and contains a display of Monegasque money dating to 1640.
An elite philatelic club, the Club de Monte-Carlo, was ...
Netherlands
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Poland
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Russia
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A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications
The A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications is a museum of science and technology founded in 1872. It is located in the historic centre of Saint Petersburg, Russia, near Saint Isaac's Square.
History
The museum was opened on 11 September 18 ...
San Marino
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Museo del Francobollo e della Moneta
Slovenia
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Museum of Post and Telecommunications
Spain
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Postal and Telegraphic Museum of Spain
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La Virreina Centro de la Imagen
Sweden
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Switzerland
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Museum of Communication Bern
The Museum of Communication is an interactive museum dedicated to the subject of communication in Bern, Switzerland. In 2019 it was awarded the Council of Europe Museum Prize. It was founded in 1907 as the corporate museum of Swiss Pos ...
Turkey
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Istanbul Postal Museum
The Istanbul Postal Museum, aka PTT Museum Istanbul ( tr, PTT İstanbul Müzesi), is a postal museum dedicated to the historical development of mail and telecommunication services in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, exhibiting related equipment and ...
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PTT Postage Stamp Museum
Ukraine
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Lviv Postal Museum
* Post Station in
Nizhyn
Nizhyn ( uk, Ні́жин, Nizhyn, ) is a city located in Chernihiv Oblast of northern Ukraine along the Oster River. The city is located north-east of the national capital Kyiv. Nizhyn serves as the administrative center of Nizhyn Raion. It ...
United Kingdom
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Bath Postal Museum
The Bath Postal Museum is in Bath, Somerset, England.
The museum was founded in 1979 by Audrey and Harold Swindells in the basement of their house in Great Pulteney Street. In 1985, it moved to a home in Broad Street. This was the site of Bat ...
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British Library Philatelic Collections
The British Library Philatelic Collections is the national philatelic collection of the United Kingdom with over 8 million items from around the world. It was established in 1891 as part of the British Museum Library, later to become the ...
*Colne Valley Postal Museum
*Isle of Wight Postal Museum
*Oakham Treasures, Gordano, Avon housing the former collection held at Inkpen Postal Museum
*The Museum of Philatelic History
at The Royal Philatelic Society London
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The Postal Museum, London
See also
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Mail
The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid-19th century, national postal sys ...
References
External links
International Postal Museum – OnlineMuseum of Philately – OnlinePostal Museum (London)
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Lists of museums by subject
Types of museums
Museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make th ...