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 edit
Africa edit
Egypt edit
Ethiopia edit
Kenya edit
Mauritius edit
Morocco edit
South Africa edit
Americas edit
Brazil edit
Canada edit
Costa Rica edit
Cuba edit
Curaçao edit
Guatemala edit
Mexico edit
- Philatelic Museum of Oaxaca – Mexico[8]
Peru edit
United States edit
- 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 edit
Bangladesh edit
Bhutan edit
China edit
Hong Kong edit
- The Postal Gallery
India edit
- National Philatelic Museum
- Postal Museum (Kolkata)
- Postal Museum (Mysore)[13]
- Sandesh Museum of Communication, Bangalore[14]
Indonesia edit
Israel edit
Japan edit
- 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 edit
North Korea edit
Pakistan edit
- Pakistan Postal Museum – Karachi
- Siddiqui Philatelic Museum, 22-J-Z Madina Town, Faisalabad[citation needed]
Saudi Arabia edit
- The Postal Museum, Riyadh[19]
Singapore edit
South Korea edit
- Damyang Stamp Museum[20]
- Postal Museum, Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do[21]
- Korea Postage Stamp Museum, Jung-gu, Seoul
Sri Lanka edit
Taiwan edit
Thailand edit
- Sam Sen Nai Philatelic Museum, Phaya Thai District, Bangkok, Thailand
- Chiang Mai Philatelic Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand[22]
United Arab Emirates edit
Uzbekistan edit
Europe edit
Andorra edit
Austria edit
Belgium edit
Croatia edit
- Croatian Postal and Telecommunications Service Museum, Jurisiceva 13, HR–10 001 Zagreb, Croatia[24]
Cyprus edit
Czech Republic edit
Denmark edit
- Danish Post & Tele Museum, Copenhagen[26]
- Post and Telegraph History Museum, Århus[27]
Estonia edit
- ENM Postal Museum – [2], Muuseumi tee 2, 60532 Tartu, Estonia
Finland edit
France edit
Germany edit
- Iserlohner Museum für Handwerk und Postgeschichte
- Museum für Kommunikation Berlin
- Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt
- Museum für Kommunikation Hamburg
- Museum of Communication, Nuremberg, Germany
- Philatelic Archive in Bonn
- Postmuseum Rheinhessen
Greece edit
Hungary edit
Ireland edit
- An Post Museum (closed)
Italy edit
- Museo internazionale dell'immagine postale
- Museo storico della comunicazione
- Museum of Tasso family and Postal History, Camerata Cornello (Bergamo)[28]
- Postal and Telegraphic Museum of Central Europe
Liechtenstein edit
Luxembourg edit
Malta edit
Monaco edit
Netherlands edit
Poland edit
Russia edit
San Marino edit
Slovenia edit
Spain edit
Sweden edit
Switzerland edit
Turkey edit
Ukraine edit
- Lviv Postal Museum
- Post Station in Nizhyn
United Kingdom edit
- 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 edit
References edit
- ^ "The Postal Museum". State Information Services. Archived from the original on 13 November 2015.
- ^ "National Postal Museum". Ethiopian Museums Support Association. Archived from the original on 25 June 2016.
- ^ "Lamu-German Post Office Historic Background". National Museums of Kenya. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016.
- ^ "Postal Museum – Philately and Communication". morocco.com. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016.
- ^ "Museum". South African Post Office. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
- ^ "Cuban Postal Museum: unique in Latin America". webhavana.com. Archived from the original on 16 April 2016.
- ^ "Museo postal y filatelico". November 12, 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-11-12.
- ^ "MUFI" (in Spanish). Museo de Filatelia de Oaxaca. 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
- ^ "About". The Museum of Postal History, Inc. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016.
- ^ "Post Office and US Postal Museum". Marshallmich.com. Archived from the original on 16 July 2016.
- ^ "Bhutan Postal Museum Entry Fees". Bhutan Department of Tourism. 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
- ^ "中国邮政邮票博物馆". May 26, 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-05-26.
- ^ "Postal Museum". mysore.ind.in. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
- ^ "A 200-year-old heritage building in Bengaluru houses museum showcasing India's postal history". Firstpost. 2022-10-09. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
- ^ "Indonesian Stamp Museum". July 21, 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-07-21.
- ^ "About Postal Museum Japan". Postal Museum Japan. Archived from the original on 8 February 2016.
- ^ "Arima Philatelic Museum / Kobe, Kita-ku Arima-cho - 有馬切手文化博物館". www.kitte-museum-arima.jp.
- ^ "English". 切手の博物館.
- ^ "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.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "전남박물관미술관협회". www.jnmuseum.or.kr. Archived from the original on 2019-01-02.
- ^ "우정박물관 메인페이지 > 우정박물관". November 17, 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-11-17.
- ^ "Chiang Mai Philatelic Museum". thailandtourismdirectory.go.th (in Thai). Retrieved 2019-05-29.
- ^ "دار الطوابع". Emirates Postal Museum (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 16 July 2016.
- ^ "HPT muzej - Početna stranica". February 22, 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-02-22.
- ^ "The Postal Museum". Česká pošta. Archived from the original on 31 July 2008.
- ^ "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)
- ^ 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"
- ^ "Descrizione". www.museodeitasso.com.
- ^ "MaltaPost launches the Malta Postal Museum". MaltaPost. 17 June 2016. Archived from the original on 21 June 2016.
- ^ "Maltapost launches the Malta Postal Museum". Times of Malta. 19 June 2016. Archived from the original on 21 June 2016.
- ^ "Musei di stato".
- ^ "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
- ^ "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
- ^ "Oakham Treasures". www.oakhamtreasures.co.uk.
- ^ "Museum". www.rpsl.org.uk.
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