The Egyptian Post Museum

The Egyptian post museum was inaugurated on the 18th of January 1940, to narrate through its galleries the history of Egypt's postal services. The museum displayed the Egyptian postage stamp as well as the royal stamp collections, in addition to the up – to-date printing machines used in Egypt.

Although the plan was to launch the museum during the international postal union(UPU)s 10th conference hosted by Egypt in 1934, yet the health condition of king fouad I necessitated its postponement. King Farouk officially inaugurated the museum in January 1940, and it was opened to the public a month later.

The museum, then occupied as area of 543 square meters, divided into two main halls, a corridor and around lobby. It was situated on the first floor of the post authority building, and displayed 1.250 museum pieces.

The museum was expanded in the 21st century to occupy the entire post authority building, where the entire first floor and half of the ground floor is used to highlight the history of postal communications in Egypt of more than 150 years

The Egyptian Post Museum is located in the Ataba Square and once you enter you find a reception from those in charge of it upscale and very warm, enter and find the statue of Khedive Ismail in the first floor and attic star painted below representing the spatial criterion that determines the distances to and from Cairo, and the museum includes 15 halls, and the halls include models of correspondence that took place in different eras from the ancient Egyptian civilization to the Greco-Roman era to the Coptic and Islamic

And from hall to hall inspired by the great history of the stages of development of mail in Egypt, you find a hall with the stages of development of postage stamps from European to Egyptian and that hall contains the office of the first director of the Egyptian Post

The museum also includes different mailboxes over the past decades, as well as the presence of postmen's clothes and their different ranks

The museum is equipped with digital technology to make it easier for visitors to know the history and development of Egypt Post

The museum also has a QR code system for most of the important exhibits in different languages in order to facilitate the search for visitors to know the story of this exhibit

Among the most important documents are the decision to appoint Motsy Bek in the European Posta Company, as well as a commemorative medal from the postal employees of Motsy Bek, and an oil painting of Khedive Ismail and postage stamps of different shapes and sizes, some dating back to 1866, and others 1887, and samples of paper stamps for the first issues of Egyptian stamps

The museum has a Braille method to enjoy the museum's holdings

There are also boxes of various shapes and sizes for letters, including what is for urgent mail, by train, and by air mail

Then a room from which he displays the clothes of the postman and his ranks and the fez of different sizes and his alarm clock

And the leather bags of the postman, the bags used for collection, the various seals and the weapons that the postman was supplied, starting from a stick of wood to the Firearms to protect him from dangers while roaming

The stages of delivering letters begin with collecting messages from those boxes and then transferring them to the offices and main stations, then the process of sorting and classifying the letters to identify their destinations inside or outside the country

There is also a unique model of the Ras El- Bar post office made of wicker, and there are remaining pieces of red wax, scales of different sizes and shapes to weigh letters and documentary photos of postal employees who took over the postal service

There is also a large room with miniature models of the various means of transport used in the delivery of mail around Egypt from carts to ships to planes and a model station for resting and replacing horses and mail vehicles between Bulaq and Suez, as there is in the last of that hall the honorary book documenting the opening of the Fouad I Postal Museum in 1940

There is a gift to honor His Majesty the King to the museum, which consists of several stamps representing Fouad's image, forming the name of the King and the word Egypt

And another room has a stamp in the form of a painting belonging to Princess Ferial from the calligrapher Youssef Ramadan the calligrapher

And the silver jubilee stamps of Ain Shams University, and the stamp of Save Abu Simbel, and the stamp of Theodor Bilharz, and the stamp of the Rosetta Stone

The hall includes a unique painting in the form of a temple façade of the ancient Egyptian civilization and inside it are 13.440 stamps bearing the image of the pyramid and the Sphinx of different colors and categories

This plate records through stamps seals with the names of the cities and center of the Egyptian country

The last room of the museum has an antique cart from the nineteenth century pulled by two horses to transport postal materials, which is in the form of a large closed wooden box.