Postal Museum, London
The Postal Museum is a postal museum run by the Postal Heritage Trust. It began in 2004 as The British Postal Museum & Archive and opened in Central London as The Postal Museum on 28 July 2017.Photo: Gaius Cornelius, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Opening hours: Wednesday—Sunday 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in London
- Also known as: “British Postal Museum & Archive”, “The British Postal Museum & Archive”, and “The Postal Museum”
- Address: 15-20 Phoenix Place, London, WC1X 0DA
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include London St Pancras International and Leicester Square.
London St Pancras International
Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
London St Pancras International is a major international rail interchange and shopping destination in London. It is the British capital's only international station, with Eurostar services connecting the city with destinations in mainland Europe.
Leicester Square
Photo: Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The area around Leicester Square, often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of London. The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.
Charles Dickens Museum
Museum
Photo: Peter Trimming, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Charles Dickens Museum is an author's house museum at 48 Doughty Street in King's Cross, in the London Borough of Camden. It occupies a typical Georgian terraced house which was Charles Dickens's home from 25 March 1837 to December 1839. Charles Dickens Museum is situated 670 feet southwest of Postal Museum, London.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bourne Estate and Gray’s Inn.
Bourne Estate
Neighborhood
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Bourne Estate is an Edwardian housing estate in Holborn, located in the London Borough of Camden. It is bounded by Clerkenwell Road to the north, Gray's Inn Road to the west, Leather Lane to the east and Baldwins Gardens to the south.
Gray’s Inn
Neighborhood
Photo: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, commonly known as Gray's Inn, is one of the four Inns of Court in London. To be called to the bar in order to practise as a barrister in England and Wales, an individual must belong to one of these inns.
Holborn-Clerkenwell
Photo: Matthew Black, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Holborn-Clerkenwell is a district in central London that is in many ways a buffer zone between London's West End and the City of London financial district.
Postal Museum, London
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: Camden, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.52472° or 51° 31′ 29″ northLongitude
-0.114° or 0° 6′ 50″ westOperator
Postal Heritage TrustOpen location code
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Russian—“Postal Museum, London” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “পোস্টাল মিউজিয়াম, লন্ডন”
- Chinese: “倫敦郵政博物館”
- French: “British Postal Museum & Archive”
- French: “British Postal Museum and Archive”
- French: “The british postal museum & archive”
- French: “The British Postal Museum & Archive”
- French: “The British Postal Museum and Archive”
- Hebrew: “מוזיאון הדואר הבריטי”
- Japanese: “英国郵便博物館”
- Japanese: “郵便博物館”
- Russian: “Почтовый музей (Лондон)”
- Russian: “Почтовый музей”
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