The Hague - Postal Museum

(Local Name: Museum voor Communicatie) Along the Laan van Meerdervoort to the east of the Peace Palace, on the right, is Zeestraat. At No. 82 of this street can be found the Postal Museum, which provides a comprehensive survey of the development of postal services and telecommunications in the Netherlands from the earliest letters to modern satellite communications. Among the exhibits are an old post office of 1928 with its sorting and bundling machines, a hand-operated telephone exchange of 1912, early telephones and modern subscriber-dialing and fax equipment. There are also a complete collection of the stamps of the Netherlands and the former Dutch colonies and a large and representative collection of stamps from other countries.