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The Postal Museum is a specialized facility run by Czech Post for documenting the history and development of the postal service, especially within the territory of the present-day Czech Republic and with a special emphasis on the development of stamp making and especially on the creators and on production documentation of stamp creations. The museum was founded shortly after the establishment of an independent Czechoslovakia in December 1918, together with the issuing of the first Czechoslovak postage stamp.
In a building at the address Nové mlýny 2, Prague 1, visitors to the Postal Museum can now view museum exhibits dedicated to classic stamp creations of European countries, Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. Also available for visitors are a reading room and specialized library. The exhibition salons upstairs are decorated with wall paintings by Josef Navrátil from 1847, and the entire historic baroque building is a category I protected monument. There is a historical museum exposition in the abbey of the Cistercian convent in Vyšší Brod at the lowest point of Bohemia on the Austrian border. The exposition represents nearly five hundred years of development of the organized postal service in this country, since the election of the King of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown from the Habsburg family in 1526 until today. The services of Czech Post are also presented here.
Printing sheets of the first Czechoslovak stamps by Alfons Mucha’s designs - "Hradčany" and newspaper stamps "Flying falcon",
Unaccepted designs for the Czechoslovak charity postage stamps "For childern", resulting from the competition announced by Ministery of posts and telegraphs in 1936.
A selection from fifteen years of production of Czech postage stamps with an emphasis on stamps that have won awards in national surveys and international competitions. A part of the exhibition will be showings of graphic designs and line drawings for individual stamps and for first day issue envelopes (to a similar extent there will be a presentation of Slovak Post and the stamp creations of Slovakia from 1993 – 2008).
Postal stagecoach from the Žamberk post office from the 2nd half of 19th century. Part of the exhibition in the Palace of Industry will be a presentation of three-dimensional collectors items from the days of the Austrian monarchy and Czechoslovakia between: historical postal uniforms, badges, travel facilitites and post boxes.
Visitors can see, among other things, the world’s only eighty-stamp block of blue Merkurs.
On the first floor in the salons decorated with wall paintings by Josef Navrátil from 1847 there will be exhibits of the Philatelic Literature Competition Class.incl. samples on period correspondence.
The oldest postage stamps from European countries issued from the half of the 19th century until 1914.
including a showing of printing sheets of various values, black proofs and printers waste.
including a showing of first-day issue envelopes.
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