The Postal Museum, Cairo

The Postal Museum is a repository of communications through the delivery of mails in Egypt from the era of the pharaohs. It is located on the second floor of the Central Post Office in Cairo at the Al Ataba Square.

The Postal Museum in Cairo was established in 1934 to coincide with the opening of the tenth Universal Postal Conference held in the city. The event took place during the reign of King Fuad I. It was opened for public viewing from 1940. The museum today is the results of renovations and expansions made in the year 1989.

The Postal Museum has ten sections. The first section is dedicated to the history of postal communication in the country from the age of the Pharaohs, the second is dedicated to the many international postal conferences around the world, the third displays tools used in postal technology, another section displays the different uniforms used by postal personnel down the ages and there is a display of miniature models of postal buildings in Egypt. There are also displays dedicated to types of transportation used by the postal service, a philately section, an air mail section and a section displaying different aspects of postal mail around the world. An artistic display at the museum is a stamp mosaic made of 15,000 identical stamps.