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Story of the Postal Museum:
With about 6 million objects, the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum is the world's largest museum collection of stamps and postal artifacts.
For years, the United States had one of the world's largest postal systems -- but no postal museum. The Smithsonian had a large philatelic collection that had grown over the course of more than 130 years. It had been housed and displayed in several museum buildings. Interested organizations and individuals fulfilled a dream of making this world-class collection easily accessible to the public.
In 1993, the National Postal Museum opened in this building. |