Museo delle poste e telecomunicazioni, History and technology museum in EUR district, Rome, Italy

The Museo delle poste e telecomunicazioni is a history museum in Rome's EUR district dedicated to the development of postal services, telegraphy, telephony, and broadcasting. The collection features stamps, postmarks, historical devices, and objects that show how these communication systems evolved.

The museum's origins trace to 1878, when Ernesto D'Amico had a collection of telegraph equipment from the pre-unification Italian states assembled at the Telegraph Office in Florence. In 1890 Pietro Lacava proposed joining a postal museum to it, and Emilio Sineo expanded acquisitions and private donations from 1897. The material moved to Rome in 1907, found premises in a Prati post office in 1939, opened on 21 June 1957, and moved to its current site in 1977, inaugurated in 1982.

The museum's name changed from Museo delle poste e telecomunicazioni to Museo storico della comunicazione. Its rooms hold items tied to Italian postal history, from telegraph to computer by way of radio and television. A 17th-century parchment sent by Doge Sebastiano Veniero to Francesco Sforza travelled through the personal couriers of the Tasso family.

The museum occupies 4,000 m² on Viale Europa at the corner of Via Cristoforo Colombo, in Rome's EUR district, and is run by the Ministry of Economic Development. Its eleven numbered routes run from mailboxes and stamps to telegraphs, pneumatic post, transport, uniforms, weapons and safes, so allow time to follow them in order. A historic archive and library are available to researchers.

In the entrance hall stands a copy of a groma, the surveying instrument Roman gromatici veteres used to mark boundaries between territories. The postal box collection begins with one bearing a Latin inscription from Borgo Cerreto, dated 1633, and opposite it hangs a copy of the Peutinger Table.