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Through the preservation and interpretation of our postal and philatelic collections, the Smithsonian National Postal Museum educates, challenges, and inspires its audiences on the breadth of American experiences. View Calendar of In-Person and Online Events.
The Smithsonian Institution’s National Postal Museum welcomes you into the world of the mail and stamp collecting, and lets you experience how letters travel, who delivers them, and how the postal system has touched the lives of so many people all over the world.
Located in the historic D.C. City Post Office next to the restored Union Station, the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum showcases the largest and most comprehensive collection of stamps and philatelic material in the world—including postal stationery, vehicles used to transport the mail, mailboxes, meters, cards and letters, and postal ...
National Postal Museum entrance as seen from Union Station Open daily 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Closed December 25. Admission is always free! Location and Directions. The museum's main entrance is located on the corner of First Street and Massachusetts Avenue NE. Other entrances have variable hours. Entry and Visitor Guidelines. Health and Safety:
The National Postal Museum, located in Washington, D.C., is the primary postal museum of the United States. It covers large portions of the postal history of the United States and other countries.
Enjoy a vast collection of stamps, postal artifacts and informative exhibits for all ages at this free museum. Since its opening in 1993 in the historic City Post Office Building, the Smithsonian National Postal Museum has served to honor and celebrate America’s proud postal history.
Right next to Union Station, this is a fun museum with modern, high-tech displays along with the standard type. The volume of stamps in one room is enormous, perhaps nearly every stamp ever printed by the country. One could spend hours in that room alone. If you are or were a stamp collector, it's a "must".
The Smithsonian National Postal Museum is devoted to the colorful and engaging history of the nation’s mail service and showcases the largest and most comprehensive collection of stamps and philatelic material in the world.
The Museum's galleries explore America's postal history and philately from colonial times to the present. Here are just a few examples of what you'll see in the museum.
Visitor information for the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington DC. Everyone had a stamp-collecting phase as a kid—and of course plenty of people keep up the hobby as adults, too. The National Postal Museum is for all of them, from the kids who soak letters to get their canceled stamps to the grown-up devotees who bid on whole ...