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

Africa

Egypt

Ethiopia

Kenya

  • German Postal Museum, Lamu

Mauritius

  • National Postal Museum

Morocco

South Africa

Americas

Canada

Cuba

Guatemala

United States of America

Asia

China

Indonesia

Japan

Singapore

South Korea

Sri Lanka

  • National Postal Museum, Colombo

Pakistan

  • Siddiqui Philatelic Museum, 22-J-Z Madina Town, Faisalabad[citation needed]

Taiwan

Europe

Cyprus

Czech Republic

  • Czech Post Museum[4]

Denmark

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

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Ireland

Russia

Sweden

United Kingdom

Middle East

Egypt

Israel

United Arab Emirates

Saudi Arabia

  • The Postal Museum, Riyadh[10]

See also

External links

Media related to Postal museum at Wikimedia Commons

References

  1. ^ "Links". Smithsonian Institution. http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/resources/6f_links.html. 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. http://www.freep.com/article/20110320/NEWS06/103200427/You-haven-t-lived-here-until-You-snail-mail-yourself-Marshall-postal-museum. Retrieved March 20, 2011. 
  3. ^ "Philatelic Center and Postal Museum". Republic of Cyprus, Ministry of Communication and Works, Cyprus Postal Services. http://www.mcw.gov.cy/mcw/dps/DPS.nsf/museum_en/museum_en?OpenDocument. 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. http://web.archive.org/web/20080731213347/http://www.cpost.cz/jetspeed/portal/media-type/html/language/en/country/null/user/anon/page/default.psml/js_pane/P-1015d17310f-109d1. 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" 
  5. ^ "Post & Tele Museum - the museum:". http://www.ptt-museum.dk/en/. 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". http://www.norbyhus.dk/musaarh.html. 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"" 
  7. ^ "Colne Valley Postal History Museum". http://www.cvphm.org/. "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" 
  8. ^ "The villages of Stoke St. Mary, Thurlbear and Orchard Portman.". http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:o5gBrDeM8HAJ:www.stokestmary.net/dwcourtgarden.htm+http://www.stokestmary.net/dwcourtgarden.htm&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us. Retrieved 2008-09-25. "The collection is housed in the Inkpen Post Box Museum, a converted barn bearing the sign bought by David [James] from the closed-down post office at the Berkshire village of Inkpen." 
  9. ^ "The Museum Site". Isle of Wight Postal Museum/A&K Reeder. http://www.postalmuseum.co.uk/the_museum_site.html. 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. ^ "Postal Museum". AsiaRooms. TUI Travel PLC. http://www.asiarooms.com/travel-guide/saudi-arabia/riyadh/riyadh-museums/postal-museum.html. 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." 

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