Museums: National Postal Museum #1 (Part 3 of 3)

Our visit to the National Postal Museum continues.

When we visited the museum, we took a guided tour with a volunteer docent.  We have found that a good museum guide provides a much richer experience than what we get when roaming a museum collection on our own.  At the Postal Museum, our guide was excellent.  He was extremely knowledgeable, energetic, interactive and entertaining, with lots of interesting stories and fun facts.

We toured the stamp collection, which is large.  Some of the stamps are displayed in cases, while many others are kept in drawers.  Fortunately, our guide showed us the many wonderful stamps hidden in drawers.      

The National Postal Museum's permanent stamp exhibition  

One of the many drawers containing rare and important stamps

The very rare and valuable "Inverted Jenny" stamps

Perhaps the best stamps we saw were stamps that we created ourselves.  We call them "selfie stamps".  Check it out.  

Thanks for visiting the National Postal Museum with us.