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Philatelic Museums of the World

ALBANIA
The Albanian Mail Enterprises Postal Museum
Reshit Collaku Street
Tirana

ANDORRA
Servei de Museus i Monuments
Centre de Recerca i Conservacio
Patrimoni Cultural d'Andorra
Cra de Bixessarri
Aixoval

ARGENTINA
Museo Postal y Telegrafico y Seccion Filatelica
Calle Sarmiento
Buenos Aires

AUSTRALIA
Australia Post
Archives Section - Philatelic Group
P.O. Box 302
Carlton South
Victoria 3053

Australian Post Office Museum
47 Liverpool St., Hobart

Australian Post Office Museum
90 Swan St.
Richmond South
Melbourne

General Post Office Museum
261/285 Queen St.
Brisbane

Telecommunications Museum
233 Castlereagh St.
Sydney

AUSTRIA
Museum des Österreichischen Postsparkassenamtes
Georg-Coch-Platz 2
Vienna

Post und Telegraphenmuseum
Mariahilferstrasse 212
Vienna

BANGLADESH
Bangladesh Postal Museum
General Post Office
Dacca

BELGIUM
Musee des Postes
Place du Grand Sablon, 5
B-1000 Bruxelles

BRAZIL
Museo Postal e Telagrafico
SCS Quadra 4
Edificio Apolo Bl "A" - No. 230
BR-70300 Brasilia D.F.

BULGARIA
Bulgarian Postal Museum
Central Post Office
Sofia

CAMEROUN
Musee des Poste et Telecommunications de la Republique du Cameroun
Direction des Postes
Boite Postal 412
Yaounde

CANADA
Canadian Post Office Museum
Oakville, Ontario

Musee National de la Poste
B.P. 3100 - Station "B"
Hull, Quebec J8X 4H2

National Archives of Canada
Philatelic Section
395 Wellington St.
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0N3

CHILE
Museo Postal y Telegraphico
Avenida B. O'Higgins 980 - Enterpriso
Santiago

CHINA, REPUBLIC OF
Postal Museum of the Republic of China
No. 45 - Section 2
Chung King South Road - Section II
10741 Taipei

COLOMBIA
Museo Postal Colombiano
Edificio Marillo - Carrera No. 7a
Bogota

CROATIA
Postanski Muzej Hrvatska
Jurisiceva 13
Zagreb

CUBA
Museo Postal y Filatelico Cubano
District Central
Havana

CYPRUS
Postal and Philatelic Museum of Cyprus
Nicosia

CZECH REPUBLIC
Postovni Muzeum Cesko
Holeckova 10
Prague

DENMARK
Post & Tele Museum
Købmagergade 37
Postboks 2053
1012 København K
http://www.ptt-museum.dk

EGYPT
Egyptian Postal Museum
al Mathaf al Bareed
Midan al Ataba
al Kihira

FINLAND
Postal Museum of Finland
The Helsinki Main Post Office
Asema-aukio SH
P.O. Box 167
FI-00101 Helsinki

FRANCE
Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunications
5 avenue de General Sarrail
F-75016 Paris

Musee de la Poste
34 Boulevard de Vaugirard
F-75015 Paris

Musee des Telecommunications
41 rue de Soupetard
F-31049 Toulouse

Musee de la Tour Chappe
rue Ste. Marguerite
F-69110 Ste. Foy-les-Lyon

GABON
Musee des Postes et Telecommunications de la Republique Gabonaise
Direction des Postes
Libreville

GERMANY
Deutsche Bundpost Museum
Postfach 3000
D-53105-Bonn
http://www.musemusstiftung.de

Deutsche Bundespost-Museum
Schaumainkai 53
Frankfurt
http://www.musemusstiftung.de

Deutsche Postmuseum
Mauerstrasse 69-75
Berlin
http://www.musemusstiftung.de

Furst Thurn u. Taxis Zentralarchiv-Hofbibliothek u. Museum
Emmeramsplatz 5
D-93067 Regensburg
http://www.musemusstiftung.de

Hamburger Postmuseum
Stephensplatz 5
Hamburg
http://www.musemusstiftung.de

GREAT BRITAIN
Bath Postal Museum
8 Broad Street
Bath, BA1 5LJ

The British Library
Philatelic Collections
96, Euston Road
London, NW1 2DB
http://www.bl.uk/collections/philatelic

British Telecommunications Museum
145 Queen Victoria Street
London, EC4U 4AT

Post Office Archives and Records Centre
Freeling House
Mount Pleasant
London, EC1A 1BB

GREECE
Postal Museum of Greece
5 rue de Stade - Pagrati
Athens

Taxydromiko Mouseio
2 Fokianou Street
GR-11635 Athens

HUNGARY
Belyeg Postamuzeum
Dobutca 75-81
Budapest

Magyar Postamuzeum
Krisztina Korut 6-8
Budapest

INDIA
National Philatelic Museum of India
Government Post Office
Calcutta

National Philatelic Museum of India
Dak Bhavan
New Delhi

INDONESIA
Musee des Timbres Taman Mini Indonesia
Indah
13560 Djarkarta

Post and Giro Museum
Jalan Djakarta 34
40000 Bandoung

IRELAND
Irish Postal Museum
Government Post Office
O'Connell Street
Dublin 1

ISRAEL
Israel Postal and Philatelic Museum
Museum Eretz-Israel
Hayim Levanon 2
6975 Tel Aviv
http://www.eimuseum.co.il/

ITALY
Museo delle Poste e Telecommunicatione
via Andreoli 11
I-00195 Roma

JAPAN
Communications Museum of Japan
31-2 chome
Ote-machi
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Korea Telecommunications Museum
100 Sejongno
Chongno-gu
110777 Seoul

LIECHTENSTEIN
Postmuseum des Fuerstentum Liechtenstein
Englander Bau
FL-9490 Vaduz

LUXEMBOURG
Musee des Poste & Telecommunication
19 rue de Reims
L-2417 Luxembourg

MEXICO
Museo Postal de Mexico
Edificio de la Central de Correos
Mexico D.F.

Museo de Filatelia de Oaxaca
504, Col. Centro
Oaxaca, 68000 Mexico

MONACO
Musee Philatelique et Numismatique
les Terrasses de Fort Vieille
23 ave. Prince Hereditaire Albert
MC-98050 Monaco

NETHERLANDS
Museum voor Communicate (telecom / post / philately)
Zeestraat 80-82
Den Haag, 2518 AD, Netherlands

NEW ZEALAND
Postal Museum of New Zealand
1533 Thorndon Quay
Wellington

NORWAY
Norway Telecommunications Museum
St. Olav Plass (Postboks 6701)
N-0130 Oslo

Postmuseet Norge
Dronningensgt 15
Oslo

PAKISTAN
Pakistan Postal Museum
General Post Office
Karachi

PERU
Museo Postal
Filatelico y Numismatico del Peru
Palacio de la Exposicion
Lima

POLAND
Museum Poczty i Telekomunikacji
ul. Krasiskiego 1
Wroclaw

PORTUGAL
Museo de CTT
rua de Dona Estefaania 175
Lisbon

ROMANIA
Muzeul National Filatelic
Calea Victoriei No. 12
Bucharest

RUSSIA
Central Museum of Russian Communications and Posts
Potchamtskaya Ulitza 7
St. Petersburg

SAN MARINO
Museo Postal de San Marino
Borgo Maggiore
San Marino

SERBIA
Posts, Telephone and Telegraph Museum
Majke Jevrosime 13
Belgrade

SOUTH AFRICA, REPUBLIC OF
Republic of South Africa Communications Museum
P.O. Box 1522,
Pretoria 0001

SPAIN
Fabrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre
Calle de Jorge Juan 106
Madrid

Museo Postal
Oficina de Correos Central
Madrid

Museo Postal y Filatelico
Palacio de la Virreina
Barcelona

SRI LANKA
Sri Lanka Philatelic Bureau
P&T Department - 4th Floor
Ceyliwco
Queen Street
Colombo 1

SWEDEN
Postmuseum Sverige
Lilla Nygatan 6
Stockholm
http://www.posten.se/museng/

Telecommunicationsmuseum Sverige
Box 27842
S-11593 Stockholm

SWITZERLAND
Museum of Communication
Helvetiastrasse 16
Bern 6, CH-3000 Switzerland
http://www.mso.ch/PTT-Museum/Infoe.htm

THAILAND
The Postal Museum of Thailand
Bureau de Posts Samsen Nai
Phahonyothin Road
Bangkok

TUNISIA
Musee National des Poste
Telephone et Telegraphe (PTT)
29 rue Essadikia
Tunis

TURKEY
Posts, Telephone and Telegraph Museum
Aydinlikevler
Ankara

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History
Regis College
235 Wellesley St.
Weston, Massachusetts
http://www.spellman.org

Museum of United States Essays and Proofs
(an on-line museum sponsored by Essay-Proof Collectors Online)
http://www.essayproof.net

Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum
2 Massachusetts Ave. N.E.
Washington, DC 20560

VATICAN
Museo Postale
Citta del Vaticano

Tales by Mail - Book 1, by Karen Cartier

All about stamps - Tales by Mail Tales by Mail is for children of all ages, perhaps up through 60 or so. It brings together stories literally from around the world ... from Botswana to Denmark, from New Zealand to the Faroes, from Saar to Israel.
The stories are short, each with a message, and each illustrated by a stamp issued by the country of the story's origin. Each who reads this book no doubt will develop a different favorite story, which is to be expected. Formatted simply, each story is preceded by a full-color illustration of the commemorative stamp that no only is impressive in its own right but also serves through its design to set the stage for the story that follows.
For those who wonder of the relationship between a stamp design and what is "behind" the design, this book serves as an excellent example.

Teddy Bears Celebrate 100th Anniversary

All about stamps - Teddy Bears Teddy bears, enormously popular symbols of human caring and loving, are being honored by the U.S. Postal Service with the issuance of the Teddy Bears commemorative stamps. The 2002 issuance of the stamps coincides with the 100th anniversary of teddy bears.
The Teddy Bears pane of 20 self-adhesive stamps depicts four lovable, cuddly teddy bears. Photos of the bears appear in the header; details of the photos appear on the stamps. The four stamp designs are repeated five times each on the pane. All four teddy bears were manufactured in the United States and are now owned by private collectors. The Ideal bear dates to circa 1905, the Bruin bear from circa 1907 and the Gund bear from circa 1948. The unlabeled "stick" bear dates from the 1920s. Mass- produced stick bears were characterized by their short arms, thin legs and upright posture. The Ideal bear, the Bruin bear and the stick bear belong to Paul and Rosemary Volpp of Carson City, Nev. The Gund bear belongs to Helen Sieverling of Pasadena, Calif.
The idea of the teddy bear was born in 1902 when President Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a captive bear during a hunting trip. Washington Post cartoonist Clifford Berryman depicted the incident on the front page of the newspaper, and soon toymakers began to manufacture the "teddy" bears associated with the president's name. People in all walks of life love teddy bears, and enthusiasts—known in the teddy bear world as arctophiles—pay top dollar for the collectibles.
Today there are teddy bear magazines, clubs, collector shows and programs, both educational and medical, that feature these little stuffed companions. Teddy bears have had endless books, songs and poem written about them. Widely viewed as symbols of security and comfort, teddy bears are often used by police officers and hospital staff to calm the young and old alike in traumatic situations

Second Set Of Penguin Stamps

All about stamps - Penguins British Antarctic Territory has issued its second set of penguin stamps on a miniature sheet and in a booklet from the Port Lockroy Post Office.
The 12 airmail postcard values feature photographs of Chinstrap, Emperor, Adelie, Gentoo and Macaroni penguins, including juveniles.
All the photographs were taken by members of the British Antarctic Survey.