Museum Pos Indonesia or the Indonesian Postal Museum is located east of Gedung Sate (West Java Gubernatorial Office Mansion) on Jalan Cilaki 73 (73 Cilaki Street), Bandung. Its building was in fact built as part of the Gedung Sate office complex. That is why they share the same architectural features.
Museum Pos Indonesia was established in 1933 as Post, Telegraph, and Telephone Museum (Museum PTT). It has the most extensive collection of stamps and other philatelic objects from all over the world, which include the oldest stamp in Indonesia (then the Netherlands’ East India) and some of the oldest stamps in the world. It also collects some of the world’s oldest post, telegraph, and telephone equipments and an impressive number of documents (photograph, pictures, paintings, leaflets, etc) that record the history of the development of the post, telegraph, and telephone services in Indonesia.
This museum is open for public free from 9 AM to 4 PM Monday through Friday, and from 9 AM to 2 PM on Saturday.
4 comments:
Hmm, it could be an interesting visit there. Pretty old letter box outside.
I've never visited a postal museum anywhere... but would like to go to that one, because as far as I remember when I used to collect stamps, Indonesia has beautiful ones.
We have a Post Museum too but it's really that small! It's located inside one of the main Post Office. Therefore, it's easy to conclude that the museum isn't anywhere as big as the one pictured in your blog.
Very interesting looking building. My grandparents were always taking my sister and I to museums (history, science and art) which I now appreciate even though I don't think I was always so enthusiastic at the time..
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