Moscow Postal Museum, History museum in Myasnitskaya Street, Moscow, Russia.
The Moscow Postal Museum is a postal museum on Myasnitskaya Street that presents exhibits of mail transport vehicles, delivery uniforms, and postal equipment from different periods of Russian history. The collection includes letters, stamps, postcards, and historical devices and documents that record how postal services operated.
The museum was founded in 1912 and documents the development of Russian postal services through authentic artifacts and communication instruments. It shows how postal logistics changed and modernized over the decades.
The museum's name honours the Russian postal service and the Moscow Post Office, whose bicentenary in 1911 preceded the first display in 1912. A portrait of Peter the Great donated by Prince Kurakin was among the earliest exhibits. Since 2016 the museum has joined the Night of Museums event and runs school excursions and temporary shows.
The museum occupies a single hall in the main post office building at Myasnitskaya 26, divided into four zones; the section on the building itself explains the 1910–1912 reconstruction by Munz and the Vesnin brothers. Visits run as guided tours, and the museum also hosts school excursions, temporary exhibitions and the Night of Museums event. Look for the original drawings of the complex, which mark the first museum rooms.
Among the exhibits are tongs that postal workers used to knock incendiary bombs off the post office roof, and a portrait of Lenin assembled from stamps issued for the 23rd CPSU Congress. A newspaper and stamp vending machine from the 1960s shows how the post office automated sales.
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