Spellman Museum of Stamps and Postal History, Weston MA

A postal museum is a

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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 poss ...

and

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List of postal and philatelic museums

Africa

Egypt

* The Post Museum

Ethiopia

* Ethiopian National Postal Museum

Kenya

German Post Office Museum German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) ** Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ge ...

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Mauritius

Blue Penny Museum The Blue Penny Museum a museum dedicated to history and art of Mauritius, is situated at Caudan Waterfront in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius. It opened in November 2001. The museum collection includes the 1847 Blue Penny and Red Penny stam ...

Mauritius Postal Museum The Mauritius Postal Museum is the Postal museum in Port Louis, the capital city of Mauritius. The building The building of today's museum was built as the General Post Office between 1865 and 1870. It is located at the harbour, beside the c ...

Morocco

Postal Museum 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 Afric ...

South Africa

* South African Post Office Museum

Americas

Brazil

* * Philatelic and Numismatic Brazilian Museum

Canada

Canadian Postal Museum The Canadian Postal Museum (CPM) was a museum once housed within the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec. It was described by the Smithsonian Museum as being one of the five largest postal museums in the world, ranking second in ann ...

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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 of ...

Costa Rica

* Museo Filatélico de Costa Rica

Cuba

Cuban Postal Museum Cuban may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Cuba, a country in the Caribbean * Cubans, people from Cuba, or of Cuban descent ** Cuban exile, a person who left Cuba for political reasons, or a descendant thereof * Cuban citizen, a perso ...

United States

Florida Postal Museum The Florida Postal Museum is a museum dedicated the preserving the history of postal items, postal history, and postal service. History The museum was founded in 1992 when Joe Guthrie, the Postmaster of DeLand, Florida, permitted the establishme ...

Franklin Post Office The Old Log Post Office, also known as the Franklin Post Office is an historic building located in Franklin, Ohio, Franklin, Ohio. Built in 1802, the two-story log cabin is the oldest surviving post office in the state and the oldest building in ...

* 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 S ...

Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History The Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History, also commonly known as the Cardinal Spellman Philatelic Museum, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the appreciation of diversity through the medium of postage stamps and postal history. Lo ...

The Museum of Postal History ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

US Postal Museum The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

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) 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 Afric ...

Postal Museum (Mysore) 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 Afr ...

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 (

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Malaysia

* Malacca Stamp Museum

North Korea

Korea Stamp Museum The Korea Stamp Museum ( ko, 조선우표박물관) is a postal museum in the Central District of Pyongyang, North Korea. History The Korea Stamp Museum opened on April 9, 2012 as part of the centennial celebration of the birth of Kim Il-sung a ...

Pakistan

* Pakistan Postal Museum – Karachi *Siddiqui Philatelic Museum, 22-J-Z Madina Town, Faisalabad

Saudi Arabia

*The Postal Museum, Riyadh

Singapore

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 stamp ...

South Korea

* Damyang Stamp Museum *

Postal Museum, Cheonan Postal may refer to: Places * The Italian name for Burgstall, South Tyrol in northern Italy * Postal, Missouri * Postal Square * Postal Museum (Liechtenstein), a postal museum in Vaduz, Liechtenstein People * Fred Postal, former co-owner of ...

, Chungcheongnam-do * , Jung-gu, Seoul

Sri Lanka

Postal museum 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 Afric ...

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,

Bangkok Bangkok, officially known in Thai language, 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 estima ...

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 bo ...

Chiang Mai Philatelic Museum Chiang may mean: * Jiang (surname)#蔣, a Chinese surname (蔣), alternatively spelt Jiang ** Chiang Kai-shek, former leader of the Republic of China * Chi'ang, variant spelling of the ancient Qiang (historical people) (羌) * Chi'ang, variant spe ...

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 ...

United Arab Emirates

* Emirates Postal Museum

Uzbekistan

* The Museum of Communication History in Uzbekistan

Europe

Andorra

Austria

Belgium

* Postal Museum of Belgium

Croatia

Croatian Postal and Telecommunications Service Museum Croatian may refer to: *Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland") , image_map = , ...

, Jurisiceva 13, HR–10 001 Zagreb, Croatia

Cyprus

* Cyprus Postal Museum

Czech Republic

The Postal Museum The Postal Museum (formerly the British Postal Museum & Archive) is a postal museum run by the Postal Heritage Trust. It began in 2004 as The British Postal Museum & Archive and opened in Central London as The Postal Museum on 28 July 2017. Si ...

Denmark

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

Estonia

* ENM Postal Museum �

Muuseumi tee 2, 60532 Tartu, Estonia

Finland

France

Musée de La Poste The Musée de La Poste (La Poste's Museum) is the museum of the French postal operator La Poste. It specialises in the postal history and philately of France. Opened in 1946, the museum has been located on two sites in Paris. The museum was clo ...

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 The (museum of communication) was a museum related to telecommunication and postal service in Hamburg, Germany. The museum in the building of Alte Oberpostdirektion at Stephansplatz, Hamburg, Stephansplatz square was owned by the ' (foundation fo ...

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 The Philatelic Archive in Bonn (German: ''Archiv für Philatelie'') is a philately, philatelic museum in Bonn, Germany. The Philatelic Archive in Bonn is operated by the Museum Foundation Post and telecommunications. The museum documents the histo ...

Greece

* Postal & Philatelic Museum of Greece

Hungary

Postal Museum of Hungary Postal may refer to: Places * The Italian name for Burgstall, South Tyrol in northern Italy * Postal, Missouri * Postal Square * Postal Museum (Liechtenstein), a postal museum in Vaduz, Liechtenstein People * Fred Postal, former co-owne ...

Ireland

An Post Museum The An Post Museum or GPO Museum was located in the General Post Office in Dublin, Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, ...

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Italy

* * * 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: ...

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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 Como ...

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Liechtenstein

Luxembourg

Malta

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

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

Poland

Russia

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 Postal may refer to: Places * The Italian name for Burgstall, South Tyrol in northern Italy * Postal, Missouri * Postal Square * Postal Museum (Liechtenstein), a postal museum in Vaduz, Liechtenstein People * Fred Postal, former co-owner ...

* La Virreina Centro de la Imagen

Sweden

Switzerland

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 Post ...

Turkey

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 PTT may refer to: Chemistry and medicine * Partial thromboplastin time, a performance indicator in medicine for coagulation status * Photothermal Therapy, a medical treatment * 2β-propanoyl-3β-(4-tolyl)-tropane, a cocaine analogue * Polytrimethy ...

Ukraine

Lviv Postal Museum Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in Western Ukraine, western Ukraine, and the List of cities in Ukraine, seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is o ...

* 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

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 Bath ...

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 B ...

*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 *

, London

References

External links

International Postal Museum – OnlineMuseum of Philately – OnlinePostal Museum (London)
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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 these ...