Postal Stamp Museum Budapest

About

The museum was opened to the public in 1930, on the ninth floor of the building of General Postal Direction on Krisztina Road. The collection soon outgrew its place, and was moved into the first 20th century architectural heritage monument in Hungary, the newly completed post office in the 7th district, designed by Gyula Rimanóczy, in 1939. The exhibition hall is one enormous space, resembling rather a library, for the stamps are placed in metal-framed glass plates fitting in cases mounted in the wall, in order to protect them from heat, light and moisture. 3200 such frames in the exhibition hall contains the nearly 500 thousand artistic stamps that make up the permanent exhibition with the title The History of the World on Stamps. In fact, the museum has a much bigger collection of more than 13 million Hungarian and foreign stamps, stamp designs etc. The museum has a special library, supporting researchers’ work as well with its handbooks and journals.

At a glance

• Typical visit: about 1 hour 30 minutes