100 years Postal Museum Frankfurt a.M. - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1972 - 40 Pfennig

On August 24, 1872 General Postal Director Heinrich Stephan ordered to the Central Post Office Berlin, that at the Central Postal Administration, a technical museum was to be built, which should contain a collection of objects of the postal service in natural size and as models. The basic stock of the collection included postal carriage drawings and uniforms as well as about 1,000 postage stamps. Stephan advocated that, in addition to memorabilia from the history of the post office, evidence of the development of the traffic and communications system be collected. Innovations of the time, such. B. pneumatic tube systems and telephone sets, were operationally demonstrated in the Postal Museum. In 1882 a telecommunications department was set up in the Reichspostmuseum, in 1910 an air shipping department was established, and in 1928 a radio department was added. The first postal museum in the world became the largest museum of its kind. During the last World War, parts of the collections were relocated. Since 1956, the postage stamp collections have been shown in temporary exhibitions in the Federal Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications in Bonn. In 1958 the Federal Postal Museum was opened in Frankfurt am Main. This year, a post office museum was opened to visitors in the former building of the Reichspostmuseum in Berlin (east). The Federal Postal Museum in Frankfurt am Main, with its collections that are constantly being supplemented, provides an overview of all areas of the postal and telecommunications systems as well as the transport system, from ancient times to the very latest. The museum's archive contains rich collections of decrees, maps, important manuscripts, valuable newspapers and an extensive graphic collection. Since 1963, special exhibitions have regularly been organized in the Bundespostmuseum showing objects that are generally not accessible to the public. In addition, the postage stamps of individual countries and collection areas are issued every two months. Regular film screenings take place. The opening hours (Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm, Wednesdays to 8 pm) are set in such a way that even working people have the opportunity to visit the museum in Frankfurt am Main at Schaumainkai 53.