Berlin - Postal Museum

The Postal Museum in the former East Berlin was founded in 1872 as the Imperial Post Museum and is the oldest of its kind in Europe. After suffering severe losses during the Second World War it was reopened in 1948.

The museum developed out of an exhibition of plans and models in the old General Post Office by Heinrich von Stephan into a rich collection illustrating the development of postal services and telecommunications, from the ancient Greek method of conveying messages by a form of telegraphy using torches to the modern Telex system. There is also a collection of postage stamps.