Philatelic Museums

Institutions that acquire, preserve, research and exhibit permanent or traveling collections of postage stamps; postal history artifacts (e.g., items relating to the Colonial Post, the Pony Express or other postal entities); philatelic materials such as writing tools, stamp printing machines, stamp boxes, U.S. and foreign letter boxes, safes, postal stamping machines, cancellation hammers and hand stamps, mail bags, and residential and rural mailboxes; and other articles related to creating and mailing postal messages or sorting, routing and delivering the mail. Philatelic museums may also collect and display books and magazines related to the history of the postal service and of philately.