Musée de La Poste

About

The Postal Museum (formerly Museum of La Poste) is the corporate museum of the La Poste Group dedicated to postal history and French philately. Opened in 1946, it has known two sites in Paris. The present museum has been located at 34 boulevard de Vaugirard since 1973.

Its collections have the label Musée de France under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture. The museum closed in 2015 for a complete architectural and museum restructuring. Its reopening took place on 23 November 2019.

The Postal Museum is a place of presentation, conservation and dissemination of postal heritage. It focuses on writing, history and culture. From seven league boots to the heroes of the Aéropostale, to the panorama of the 150 years of the postage stamp in France, the collections of the Postal Museum tell a story, not only that of a company but also that of France on a daily basis.

The museum preserves and exhibits on more than 1,000 m2, the historical, artistic, philatelic and scientific heritage consisting of pieces of collections as diverse as the first maps of the postal routes, the uniforms of factors, the models of artists, the stamps, the...