China National Post and Postage Stamp Museum

　　The China National Post and Postage Stamp Museum is a national-level “flagship industry museum” in China, built under the initiative of China Post Group. It houses thousands of cultural relics and postage stamps. The museum officially opened to the public on August 22, 2007. Located at No. 6 Gongyuan, Jianguomen, East Chang’an Avenue, Beijing, it features four floors with a total exhibition area of 7,500 square meters, 6,000 square meters of storage space for cultural relics, and a collection that includes nearly ten thousand postal artifacts, hundreds of millions of Chinese stamps (including those from Hong Kong and Macau), as well as over 200 collections of distinctive and visually captivating philatelic items issued in recent years by more than 200 countries and regions. The museum is divided into seven main exhibition areas: “Primitive Communication,” “Ancient Postal Relay Stations,” “Modern Post,” “Contemporary Post,” “Stamp Exhibition Hall,” “Special Exhibition Area,” and “Treasure Hall.”

　　The China National Post and Postage Stamp Museum

　　The four-floor exhibition hall brings visitors up close to thousands of carefully selected miniature stamps, hundreds of choice postal artifacts, dozens of classic original stamp designs, and rare world-famous treasures. The China National Post and Postage Stamp Museum presents a comprehensive, systematic, authoritative, and vivid overview of over 3,000 years of evolution in China’s postal relay and mail services, showcasing its development and vision for a bright future, while accurately reflecting the distinct industry characteristics and contemporary features of China’s postal service.

　　Source: Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development