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    Open daily 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

    Admission is always free!

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    Washington, DC 20002

    The museum's main entrance is located on the corner of First Street and Massachusetts Avenue NE. Other entrances have variable hours.

    street map of Postal museum

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Gallery entrance wall panel with exhibit logo
Introduction panel just inside gallery entrance
Introduction panel and a model of a Stickney printing press in a case
One-of-a-Kind wall panel with two albums in a case
Wall panels inside the exhibition
Entrance to the rarities and special holdings gallery
Rarities and special holdings gallery
Gravure and engravings wall panel

Stamps Take Flight

  • A One-of-a-Kind Collection
  • Creating America’s Stamps
    • Classic Engraving
      • One Color
      • Adding a Second Color
      • Giori Innovation
      • Engravers Tools
      • Stickney Press
    • A New World of Color
    • Full-Color Gravure
      • Moon Landing Stamps
    • The Lure of Lithography
      • Air Force Thunderbirds Stamp
    • Holography: Into the Future
    • Two-in-One Stamps
      • Space Twins
      • Sikorsky Helicopter
    • Finishing the Job
      • The 1960 Jet Silhouette Stamp
      • Space Shuttle Stamps
  • Rarities and Special Holdings
    • First U.S. Airmail
    • Inverted Jenny Die Proof
    • Moon Mail
    • Bluish-Paper Stamps
    • High-Value Panes
    • Stamps That Never Were
  • U.S. Air and Space Stamp Gallery
    • Air Stamps–Pilots and Aviation Pioneers
    • Air Stamps–Military Aviation: Air Force, Army, Navy & Marine Corps
    • Air Stamps–Aviation Imagined
    • Air Stamps–Lighter than Air: Balloons and Dirigibles
    • Air Stamps–Heavier than Air: Biplanes, Monoplanes, Jets & Helicopters
    • Space Stamps–Exploration and Achievements
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    • Space Stamps–Space Imagined
    • Space Stamps–Satellites
    • Space Stamps–Missions: Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo
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Open daily 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Admission is always free!

2 Massachusetts Ave., N.E.
Washington, DC 20002

The museum's main entrance is located on the corner of First Street and Massachusetts Avenue NE. Other entrances have variable hours.

street map of Postal museum

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