Postal museum, Colombo explained

National Postal Museum
Map Type:Sri Lanka Colombo Central
Coordinates:6.928°N 79.8581°W
Established:6 July 2010
Location:Colombo, Sri Lanka
Type:Post
Website:Department of Post

Postal museum is a Sri Lanka's national museum of post that located at the Postal Headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Firstly, the postal museum was functioned at the Central Telegraph Office during 1918–1925, and moved to General Post Office in 1994. Again, a national postal museum was opened on 6 July 2010.[1]

The museum has basic information on Dutch period post offices, rare stamps, equipment, pillar boxes, etc.[2] Overall, the museum gives the picture of Sri Lanka Post's history.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sri Lanka’s snail mail history . Ceylon Today . 1 June 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150602133259/http://www.ceylontoday.lk/64-48343-news-detail-sri-lankas-snail-mail-history.html . 2 June 2015 .
  2. Web site: Sri Lanka Post - Our Museum . Department of Post . 2 June 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120224155921/http://www.slpost.gov.lk/museum/ . 24 February 2012 .
  3. Web site: When pigeons carried mail from place to place . Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) . 2 June 2015.