Guangzhou Postal Museum

Guangzhou Postal Museum

The Guangzhou Postal Museum is located in the Postal Building on Yanjiang West Road, facing the Pearl River. To the west is the Customs House, and to the east is the South China Building. Together with the neighboring Aiqun Building, they form the most stunning scenery along the Pearl River’s Yanjiang Road. The building itself is a provincial-level cultural relic protection unit.

The Postal Building was built in 1916 as the former Guangdong Postal Administration under the Nationalist government, and served as the office building of Guangzhou Post for over 80 years. In May 2002, it was opened to the public as the Guangzhou Postal Museum—the city’s earliest postal building—serving as a window to showcase the development history of Guangzhou Post and philatelic culture, while also bearing witness to the evolution of Guangzhou’s postal history.

The museum is housed on the second and third floors of the building, with a total of seven exhibition halls divided into four sections: ancient postal relay stations, the Qing Dynasty Post, the Republic of China Post, and Guangzhou Post after the reform and opening-up. Among them, the history of ancient postal relay stations spans over a thousand years, from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Spring and Autumn period, and then to the Qin dynasty when the formal “postal relay station” system was established. The “Qing Dynasty Foreign Post Offices” section highlights the historical fact that the first modern post office in China was born in Shamian, Guangzhou.

The museum also uses a wealth of physical objects and detailed textual and photographic materials to introduce the development process of New China’s postal service. Some items are particularly precious, such as the special large-format souvenir sheet of the “Guangzhou Liberation” red commemorative stamps issued in November 1949, which set a world record with its full sheet of 480 stamps. Meanwhile, post-reform Guangzhou Post has seen several Chinese firsts: the first self-service post office in China was established in Wushan in 1998, and the first postal automatic savings bank was launched in Guangda Road in 1999, showcasing Guangzhou’s outstanding contributions to the history of China’s postal service.

Address: No. 43, Yanjiang West Road, Liwan District, Guangzhou

Type: Museum / Historic Building

Recommended Visiting Time: 2–3 hours

Phone: 020-81291853

Opening Hours:

Monday–Friday: 9:30–18:00; Saturday & Sunday: 10:00–17:00

Ticket Information:

Free admission.