Shanghai Postal Museum

The Shanghai Postal Museum tells the history of China’s communication routes from 1400 BC to the present.

The museum has been in operation since 2003 and was officially opened on January 1, 2006. The museum is located in the building of the main post office in Shanghai and covers an area of about 8000 square meters.

The Postal Museum presents models of the first postal stations and communication offices, printing presses and the first personal computers, and here you can see how the first postmen and their costumes looked, as well as how they changed over the centuries. The collection of stamps and postcards shows how the printed products of the country have changed, as well as what important events and figures of politics and art were in the center of attention at certain historical stages.