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

Africa

Egypt

• The Post Museum

Ethiopia

• Ethiopian National Postal Museum

Kenya

• German Post Office Museum https://museums.or.ke/lamu-museum/

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

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
• 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
• Postal Museum (Kolkata)
• Postal Museum (Mysore)
• Sandesh Museum of Communication, Bangalore

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

• Singapore Philatelic Museum

South Korea

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

Sri Lanka

• Postal museum

Taiwan

• Chunghwa Postal Museum

Thailand

• Sam Sen Nai Philatelic Museum, Phaya Thai District, Bangkok, Thailand
• Chiang Mai Philatelic Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand

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, Jurisiceva 13, HR–10 001 Zagreb, Croatia

Cyprus

• Cyprus Postal Museum

Czech Republic

• Prague Postal Museum

Denmark

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

Estonia

• ENM Postal Museum – https://www.erm.ee/en/museum, Muuseumi tee 2, 60532 Tartu, Estonia

Finland

France

• Musée de La Poste

Germany

• Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt
• Museum für Kommunikation Hamburg
• Museum of Communication, Nuremberg, Germany
• 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, Camerata Cornello (Bergamo)

Liechtenstein

• Postal Museum

Luxembourg

Malta

• Malta Postal Museum

Monaco

• Museum of Stamps and Coins

Netherlands

Poland

Russia

• A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications

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

Switzerland

• Museum of Communication Bern

Turkey

• Istanbul Postal Museum
• PTT Postage Stamp Museum

Ukraine

• Lviv Postal Museum
• Post Station in Nizhyn

United Kingdom

• Bath Postal Museum
• British Library Philatelic Collections
• 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

• Mail

References

External links

• International Postal Museum – Online
• Museum of Philately – Online
• Postal Museum (London)