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The National Postal Museum opened to the public July 30, 1993. The museum houses and displays the national philatelic and postal history collection which is the largest and most comprehensive of its kind in the world. The museum has five exhibit galleries, a Discovery Center, and a Library Research Center. More - https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_2239 and https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_1576.
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Friday, July 30, 1993
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The entrance to the Philatelic Rarities Vault located in the National Postal Museum in the Old Washington City Post Office Building. Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95, Box 34, Folder 42 and Accession 11-009.