Postal Museum

A postal museum is a museum that deals with the history of postal , telecommunications, or general communications . Many of these museums also show postage stamp issues and important philatelic documents such as the most important drafts, proofs, stitch plates and historical postal equipment.

List of museums

Post museums in Germany

• Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications
  • Museum for Communication Berlin , formerly Reichspostmuseum
  • Museum for Communication Frankfurt , formerly Bundespostmuseum
  • Museum for Communication Hamburg (until October 2009)
  • Museum for Communication Nuremberg , founded as the "Bavarian Postal Museum"
  • Archive for philately in Bonn
• Rheinhessisches Postmuseum in Erbes-Büdesheim
• Post office in the Helgoland museum courtyard on Helgoland
• Postal Museum in Friesoythe
• Iserlohn Museum of Crafts and Postal History
• Postal Museum in Mettingen
• Railway Post Museum in Losheim am See
• Munderkingen City Museum with postal history department
• The Mittelrheinische Postmuseum in Koblenz was closed, the exhibits were handed over to the museum in Frankfurt am Main.
• Postal Museum in Regensburg
• Postal Museum in Recklinghausen
• Postal Museum in Rheinhausen

Specialized in telephones or telecommunications technology

• Telecommunication museum in Mühlhausen / Thuringia
• Telecommunication Museum Dresden
• Telephone Museum Bochum
• Telephone Museum Morbach in Morbach
• Radio and Telephone Museum Gerolstein in Gerolstein

Post museums in other countries

• Museum of Post and Telecommunications in Wroclaw (Poland)
• Historic Post Office Küb (Austria)
• Museum for Communication Bern (Switzerland)
• Central European Post and Telegraph Museum in Trieste (Italy)
• Postal Museum (Liechtenstein) (Liechtenstein)
• Museum Enigma (formerly: Post & Tele Museum) in Copenhagen (Denmark)
• Maihaugen Post Museum in Lillehammer (Norway)
• Luxembourg Post and Telecommunications Museum (Luxembourg)
• Museum voor Communicatie (Netherlands)
• Poštovní muzeum in Prague and Vyšší Brod (Czech Republic)
• Postal Museum in Hollókő (Hungary)
• Postal Museum (Athens) (Greece)
• National Postal Museum in Washington, DC , (USA)
• Postal Museum (Stockholm) (Sweden)
• Blue Penny Museum (Mauritius)
• Mauritius Postal Museum (Mauritius)
• Korean Postage Stamp Museum (North Korea)

literature

• 100 years of the Portuguese Postal Museum. In: Collector Service No. 5/1980, pp 351-352..
• Manual dictionary of the postal system ; 2nd Edition; Pp. 537-538.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ http://www.mittelbayerische.de/bayern-nachrichten/der-postbusfahrer-und-sein-museum-21705-art855704.html
3. ↑ Telecommunications Museum Mühlhausen
4. ↑ Telecommunication Museum Dresden
5. ↑ https://postmuseet.no/
6. ↑ Luxembourg Post Museum
7. ↑ https://www.postovnimuzeum.cz