The Stamp Museum ( tr, Pul Müzesi) is a museum in

Ankara Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, maki ...

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The building

The museum is in Ulus neighborhood of Ankara at . The museum building was the headquarters of a former bank named Emlak ve Eytam Bank. It was planned by

Clemens Holzmeister Clemens Holzmeister (27 March 1886 – 12 June 1983) was a prominent Austrian architect and stage designer of the early twentieth century. The Austrian Academy of Fine Arts listed his life's work as containing 673 projects. He was the father of ...

, the renown Austrian architect and was built in 1933-34 term.Essay by İlknur Sudaş in Akitera architecture page
/ref> It is a five floor building with a total area of . After the bank was merged to another bank in 1946 the building was handed over to Turkish PTT. In 2013 after renovation the building was opened to public as a stamp museum.

Collections

The Turkish and the Ottoman as well as some foreign

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 fa ...

are displayed in the museum. There are also thematic collections shown below: Museum page
/ref> :Cultural heritage : Atatürk (founder of Turkey) :Vehicles :Sports :Nature :Tourism

References

{{Museums in Turkey Museums in Altındağ, Ankara Ulus, Ankara Buildings and structures in Ankara 2001 establishments in Turkey 1934 in Turkey 2013 in Turkey Architecture in Turkey Postal museums Altındağ, Ankara