Postal Museum in Cairo (Egyptian Post Office Museum)
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Overview
55 Abdel Khaleq Tharwat St Midan El Ataba Down Town, CairoThe Postal Museum is located at Al-Ataba Square in Middle Cairo, on the second level of the Central Post Office. The museum was founded in February 1934 and it opened its doors to the public in January 1940.
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Description
The Postal Museum is located at Al-Ataba Square in Middle Cairo, on the second level of the Central Post Office. The Museum was founded in 1934 during the reign of King Fuad I on the occasion of the opening of tenth Universal Postal Conference in Cairo. It opened its door to the public in 1940. The museum was then renovated in the era of President Hosni Mubarak and was inaugurated in 1989.
The museum consists of ten sections:
The History Section: includes the models for the evolution of writing and the letter and on the covers of various ancient and modern, such as panel Narmer and the ink tanks of the Covenant, the Pharaonic, Roman, Coptic, and papyri and the statue of the writer in the era of the ancient and modern, and samples of some of the messages and letters Basor different as a message stick and the head of the soldier, also includes on several documents as a contract franchise company of Bosnia and the first European publication of the interest in outdated e-government
Section of Conferences: includes photographs of Dr. Stephen, founder of the General Post and pictures of members of the conferences of international mail in Bern in 1874 to the Stockholm Conference in 1924, and the Treaty of e-public and conventions attached to each conference ...
Section of mail tools: includes a variety of chains and weights, bags and wallets postal stamps, money orders and compressors lead and seals, ancient and modern and boxes of letters and regular mechanic.
Section of Clothing: covers the different types of clothing for senior staff and heads of departments, distributors and different badges, woven and copper and signs of the helicopter ...
Section of Buildings: Includes miniature models of some Buildings Kmsalehp postal mail and post office in Cairo, Port Said and Port Fouad, a model for village post office and a scale model of the Registry to monitor the distribution of mail, Cairo ...
Section of Maps and Statistics: includes maps, charts and statistics showing the evolution of interest in registered mail and regular internal and external remittances and parcels.
Section of Transport: includes multiple models for the transport of old and new mail from wooden carts and iron and motorcycles, railway and ships to transport mail.
Section of local and foreign Stamps: includes collections of Egyptian and foreign stamps and Iklischhat, templates, and panels for the manufacture of stamps, as well as a range of models of action steps in the manufacture of philatelic interest area .. It also includes a unique classification of stamp sets for each of the mail European, African and Asian-mail and U.S. mail and Australian.
Section of Air Mail: includes the different models of carrier pigeons and models for some of the aircraft GIFT of company routes Empire Company, a Dutch airline, and a model for the first letter responded to Alexandria from London on August 17, 1929, and the first letter by air mail was sent to Karachi from the Egyptian airline between the country of Egypt and India.
Foreign section: includes a set of pictures of buildings and museums, some foreign postal administrations, and some of the tools used for those departments.
Hours of work
Sunday-Thursday 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
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