Postal museum

There are museums for postal organisations and the worldwide postal system:^[1]

Africa

Egypt

• The Post Museum, Cairo

Ethiopia

• Ethiopia National Postal Museum, Addis Ababa

Kenya

• German Postal Museum, Lamu

Mauritius

• National Postal Museum

Morocco

• Morocco Postal Museum

South Africa

• South African Post Office Museum

Americas

Brazil

Former *Postal Museum and Telegraphic to *National Postal Museum

Canada

• Canadian Postal Museum

Cuba

• Cuban Postal Museum

Guatemala

• Guatemalan Postal & Philatelic Museum

United States of America

• Smithsonian National Postal Museum
• US Postal Museum, Marshall, Michigan-- second largest postal museum in U.S.^[2]
• The Delphos Museum of Postal History, originally at 127 N Main St, Delphos, Ohio
• Florida Postal Museum

Asia

China

• China National Postal and Stamp Museum
• Shanghai Postal Museum

Indonesia

• Indonesian Stamp Museum

Japan

Postal Museum Japan

Malaysia

• Malacca Stamp Museum

Singapore

• Singapore Philatelic Museum

South Korea

• Postal Museum of Korea, Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do
• Postal Memorial, Jongno-gu, Seoul

Sri Lanka

• Postal museum, Colombo

Pakistan

• Siddiqui Philatelic Museum, 22-J-Z Madina Town, Faisalabad

Taiwan

• Chunghwa Postal Museum

Europe

Andorra

Cyprus

• The Philatelic Centre and Postal Museum^[3]

Czech Republic

• Czech Post Museum^[4]

Denmark

• Danish Post & Tele Museum, Copenhagen^[5]
• Post and Telegraph History Museum, Århus^[6]

Finland

• Postimuseo Helsinki

France

• Musée de La Poste

Germany

• German Museums with English Websites

Greece

• Athens Postal & Philatelic Museum

Ireland

• An Post Museum^[7]

Liechtenstein

Postmuseum des Fürstentums Liechtenstein

Monaco

Musée des Timbres et des Monnaies de Monaco

Netherlands

• Museum voor Communicatie

Russia

• A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications

Sweden

• Postmuseum Stockholm

United Kingdom

• Bath Postal Museum
• The British Postal Museum & Archive
• Colne Valley Postal Museum^[8]
• Isle of Wight Postal Museum^[9]
• Oakham Treasures, Gordano, Avon ^[10] housing the former collection held at Inkpen Postal Museum

Middle East

Egypt

• Egypt Post Museum

Israel

• Alexander Museum of Postal History & Philately

United Arab Emirates

• Emirates Postal Museum

Saudi Arabia

• The Postal Museum, Riyadh^[11]

See also

• List of philatelic museums
• Mail

External links

References

1. "Links". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2008-09-25. Links to: Non-profit Philatelic and Postal History Societies, Philatelic and History Museums, Philatelic and Postal History Archives and Libraries, Related Non–profit Links and Resources
2. Meyer, Zlati (Mar 20, 2011). "You haven't lived here until ... You snail-mail yourself to the Marshall postal museum". Detroit Free Press. p. 20. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
3. "Philatelic Center and Postal Museum". Republic of Cyprus, Ministry of Communication and Works, Cyprus Postal Services. Retrieved 2008-09-25. The Philatelic Centre and Postal Museum operating in Cyprus since 1981 [..] Museum is situated since 1999 at Laiki Yitonia in the old town of Lefkosia
4. "Česká pošta s.p. : The Postal Museum". Česká pošta. Archived from the original on 2008-07-31. Retrieved 2008-09-25. The Postal Museum invites you to come to see its exhibitions: The Postal Museum, Nove mlyny 2, 110 00 Praha 1 [..] The Postal Museum – Branch Office, 382 73 Vyssi Brod line feed character in |quote= at position 62 (help)
5. "Post & Tele Museum - the museum:". 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)
6. 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"
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8. "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
9. "The Museum Site". Isle of Wight Postal Museum/A&K Reeder. 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
10. "Oakham Treasures".
11. "Postal Museum". AsiaRooms. TUI Travel PLC. Retrieved 2008-09-25. The Postal Museum is one 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.