National Postal Museum

2 Massachusetts Ave., NE, Washington, DC 20002

202-633-5555

Museum Website

The Museum collection concentrates on stamps and historic artifacts of postal operations.

The National Postal Museum is divided into galleries that explore America's postal history from colonial times to the present.  

The original artwork for stamps exposes the diversity of themes celebrated by stamp issues, often juxtaposed in exhibits with curators' selections of museum objects and exceptional private collections to iinterpret history.