List of philatelic museums
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This is a list of museum
s related to philately
or postal services.
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
s related to philately
Philately
Philately is the study of stamps and postal history and other related items. Philately involves more than just stamp collecting, which does not necessarily involve the study of stamps. It is possible to be a philatelist without owning any stamps...
or postal services.
- Alexander Museum of Postal History and Philately, Eretz Israel Museum, 2 Haim Levanon St., Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69975, Israel
- Bath Postal MuseumBath Postal MuseumThe 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 1984, it moved to a home in Broad Street. This was the site of Bath's main Post Office from 1822 to 1854 and the building in which the first recorded...
- England - British Library Philatelic CollectionsBritish Library Philatelic CollectionsThe 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 British Library, with the collection of Thomas Tapling...
Home page: British Library Philatelic Collections - 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB - British Postal Museum and ArchiveThe British Postal Museum & ArchiveThe British Postal Museum & Archive is the leading resource for all aspects of the history of the British postal system. It operates three sites: The Royal Mail Archive at Mount Pleasant sorting office in Clerkenwell, London, a Museum Store in Loughton, Essex and The Museum of the Post Office in...
- http://www.postalheritage.org.uk/visiting/ Freeling House, Phoenix Place, London WC1, England - Canadian Postal MuseumCanadian Postal MuseumThe Canadian Postal Museum is housed within the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec. It has been described as one of the largest postal museums in the world, ranking second in annual attendance. The museum is not primarily about postage stamps, although it has a first-class...
- Communications Museum of Japan - Ote-machi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
- Croatian Postal and Telecommunications Service Museum, Jurisiceva 13, HR-10 001 Zagreb, Croatia
- Florida Postal MuseumFlorida Postal MuseumThe 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 establishment of a small postal museum inside the post office....
– United States - Japanese Postal Museum
- Marshall Postal Museum - United States
- Musée de La PosteMusée de La PosteThe Musée de La Poste is the museum of the French postal operator La Poste. It specialises in the postal history and philately of France...
- Musée de La Poste, 34 Boulevard de Vaugirard, 75731 PARIS CEDEX 15, France - Museum of Communication, Bern - Switzerland
- Museum voor Communicatie - Zeestraat 80-82, NL- 2518 AD Den Haag, Netherlands
- National Philatelic Museum of India - G.P.O. complex, Calcutta
- National Postal MuseumNational Postal MuseumThe National Postal Museum, located opposite Union Station in Washington, D.C., USA, was established through joint agreement between the United States Postal Service and the Smithsonian Institution and opened in 1993. The museum is located across the street from Union Station, in the building that...
– Washington, D.C., United States - Newport Postcard Museum - United States
- Pakistan Postal Museum - Karachi
- Philatelic Museum of Oaxaca - Mexico
- Post Museum of Egypt
- Postal & Philatelic Museum of Greece, 5 Stadiou Square & Fokianou Street, Athens, Greece
- Postal and Telecommunication Museum of Denmark CopenhagenCopenhagenCopenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
- Postal and Telegraphic Museum of Spain
- Postal Museum of Belgium
- The Postal Museum, Nove mlyny 2, Nove mlyny 2, 110 00 Praha 1, Czechoslovakia
- Postal Museum of Finland
- Postal Museum of Germany
- Postal Museum of Hungary
- Postal Museum of Morocco
- Postal Museum of Sweden - Lilla Nygatan 6, 103 11 Stockholm
- Postal Museum of United Arab Emirates
- Singapore Philatelic MuseumSingapore Philatelic MuseumThe Singapore Philatelic Museum is a museum about the postal history of Singapore and its stamps. The museum, located at 23-B Coleman Street in Singapore, was formerly part of the Anglo-Chinese School, completed in 1906...
- Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal HistorySpellman Museum of Stamps & Postal HistoryThe Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History, also commonly known as the Cardinal Spellman Philatelic Museum, is a non-for-profit organization dedicated to the appreciation of diversity through the medium of postage stamps and postal history....
- United States