Exhibition
Connect with U.S. Stamps
In this interactive area, learn how stamp content, design, and production have changed over time and how modern U.S. stamps reflect the nation’s identity. Explore your own connections with stamps. At three touchscreen tables, sort through the museum’s collection and create your own stamp collection based on the topics that interest you most. Create your own stamp designs. Videos feature stamp designers talking about their craft, collectors explaining what they collect and why, and footage showing how stamps are produced.
On View At
Located in the historic D.C. City Post Office next to the restored Union Station, the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum showcases the largest and most comprehensive collection of stamps and philatelic material in the world.
Washington, DC
10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily