Postal Museum, Postal museum in Old Town, Prague, Czech Republic
The Postal Museum occupies a Baroque building from the 17th century and houses several exhibition halls displaying collections of stamps, postal equipment, and historical documents. The rooms trace the evolution of postal services through objects and records spanning different periods.
Founded on 18 December 1918 by the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs, the same day Czechoslovakia's first stamps were issued, the museum spent a decade collecting before opening its first exhibition in the Karolinum in 1928. In 1932 it moved to the former St. Gabriel monastery in Smíchov, and in 1988 it opened in the restored Vávra Mill, a Baroque house on the Vltava. Since 2026 it has been a branch of the National Technical Museum.
In the four first-floor salons, Josef Navrátil painted wall murals; the rooms retain part of their Biedermeier furniture from the second quarter of the 19th century. The building is a former Baroque residential house of the 17th century, adapted for the miller Vávra, and the water mill on the Vltava no longer survives.
The museum stands at Nové mlýny 2, by the corner of Nábřeží Ludvíka Svobody near Štefánikův most; metro B stops at Náměstí Republiky and trams run along Revoluční. It opens daily except Monday, and the building is not wheelchair accessible. A study room and a specialist library are on site.
The museum's home, Vávrův mlýn, is a 17th-century Baroque house adapted for miller Vávra; the water mill itself on the Vltava no longer survives. On the first floor, four salons carry wall paintings by Josef Navrátil, furnished with partly surviving Biedermeier pieces from the second quarter of the 19th century.
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