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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 ...
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List of postal and philatelic museums


Africa


Egypt

* The Post Museum


Ethiopia

* Ethiopian National Postal Museum


Kenya

* German Post Office Museumbr>


Mauritius

* Blue Penny Museum * Mauritius Postal Museum


Morocco

* Postal Museum


South Africa

* South African Post Office Museum


Americas


Brazil

* * Philatelic and Numismatic Brazilian Museum


Canada

* Canadian Postal Museum (closed) *
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

* Museo Filatélico de Costa Rica


Cuba

* Cuban Postal Museum


Curaçao

* Postal Museum Curaçao


Guatemala

* Guatemalan Postal & Philatelic Museum


Mexico

* Philatelic Museum of Oaxaca – Mexico


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 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 ...
* Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History * The Museum of Postal History * US Postal Museum


Asia


Bangladesh

* Philatelic Museum


Bhutan

* Bhutan Postal Museum.


China

* China National Postal and Stamp Museum * Shanghai Postal Museum


Hong Kong

* The Postal Gallery


India

* National Philatelic Museum * Philatelic Museum (Bangalore) * Postal Museum (Kolkata) * Postal Museum (Mysore)


Indonesia

* Indonesian Stamp Museum


Israel

* Alexander Museum of Postal History and Philately


Japan

* Communications Museum of Japan – Ote-machi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo * Postal Museum Japan * Philatelic Culture Museum ( Arima, Kobe) * Philatelic Museum ( Mejiro, Tokyo)


Malaysia

* Malacca Stamp Museum


North Korea

* Korea Stamp Museum


Pakistan

* 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

* Damyang Stamp Museum * Postal Museum, Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do * , Jung-gu, Seoul


Sri Lanka

* 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

* Sam Sen Nai Philatelic Museum, Phaya Thai District,
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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 ...
* Chiang Mai Philatelic Museum,
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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

* Emirates Postal Museum


Uzbekistan

* The Museum of Communication History in Uzbekistan


Europe


Andorra

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Austria

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Belgium

* Postal Museum of Belgium


Croatia

* Croatian Postal and Telecommunications Service Museum, Jurisiceva 13, HR–10 001 Zagreb, Croatia


Cyprus

* Cyprus Postal Museum


Czech Republic

* The Postal Museum


Denmark

*Danish Post & Tele Museum, Copenhagen *Post and Telegraph History Museum, Århus


Estonia

* ENM Postal Museum

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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 ...
* Museum für Kommunikation Hamburg *
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 ...
* Philatelic Archive in Bonn *


Greece

* Postal & Philatelic Museum of Greece


Hungary

* Postal Museum of Hungary


Ireland

* An Post Museum (closed)


Italy

* * * Museum of Tasso family and Postal History,
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Liechtenstein

* 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

* Museo del Francobollo e della Moneta


Slovenia

* Museum of Post and Telecommunications


Spain

* Postal and Telegraphic Museum of Spain * 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 ...
* PTT Postage Stamp Museum


Ukraine

* Lviv Postal Museum * Post Station in
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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 * 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)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Postal Museum 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 ...