Expositions
Postal Museum Prague
Our Prague venue is based in a 17th century baroque building located in the Prague Conservation Area registered on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
Address: Nové mlýny 2, 110 00 Prague 1
Telephone: + 420 222 312 006
Fax: + 420 222 311 930
Email: postovni.muzeum@cpost.cz
- Permanent exposition of postage stamps of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia, including first-day covers (FDCs), philatelic rarities and counterfeits,
- Oldest stamps of European and non-European countries, United Nations stamps,
- Specialized stamp design collections - Prague Castle, Russian gubernian parliaments, classic pre-1918 Austrian stamps, old pre-1871 German states, etc.
- Pre-stamp letters, cancellations, first newspaper stamps in the world,
- Occasional exhibitions on stamp design and postal history,
- Library and study room with philatelic and postal history literature,
- Original mid-19th century interior of the historic building including four saloons with murals by Josef Navrátil.
You can easily get to the building, located in the city centre on the right bank of the Vltava river (street Nové mlýny), by using the Prague integrated transport network. The nearest "B" metro station Náměstí Republiky is within walking distance (about 5 minutes). You can also use tram routes 5, 8, 14 or 26 to go to Revoluční třída (within the same walking distance).
Postal Museum Vyšší Brod
Our Vyšší Brod venue is located in the building of the 13th century Cistercian monastery in Vyšší Brod.
Address: Cistercian Monastery, 382 73 Vyšší Brod
Telephone: + 420 380 746 679
Fax: + 420 380 746 243
Email: postovni.muzeum@cpost.cz; pm.vb@tiscali.cz
- Large exposition on postal history in the Czech, Moravian and Silesian lands from 1526 until today (approx. 1,800m2),
- The largest collection of 19th century cars and coaches in the Czech Republic,
- Historic postal uniforms, signs, cash boxes, letter boxes, maps,
- Samples of correspondence, old writing tools, franking and cancelling machines,
- Reconstructions of 18th and 20th century post offices,
- Telegraph, teleprinter and telephone machines,
- Late gothic, renaissance and baroque interiors.
The exposition is located about 200km far from Prague inside the former Cistercian monastery in Vyšší Brod, a small town in South Bohemia close to the Austrian borders. You can get there easily by car, bus or train. There are frequent bus and train services during the summer season.