National Post Office Muse

The National Post Office Museum is a postal, telegraphic and philatelic museum in Brazil created on February 26, 1889 and located in Brasilia .

History

Postal Museum

Dr. Luiz Betim Paes Leme, was in charge of the General Post Office in the period from 18/03/1882 to 19/12/1891. In its administration the Postal Library was created on March 26, 1888 and the following year, the Postal Museum on February 26, 1889, according to Ordinance No. 119.

The Telegraph Museum

If the Postal Museum was widely documented, with a creation ordinance and quoted in the Annual Reports of the Post Office, the same can not be said of the Telegraph Museum. However, we know of its existence due to the photographs belonging to the iconographic collection of the National Post Office, which record two rooms designed for the preservation and display of telegraphic devices, fragments of submarine cables, insulators, among other items, which served as experiments for the new employees of Telegraphs.

Postal-Telegraph Museum and Philatelic Museum

On December 12, 1931, there was a drastic change in postal and telegraph services in Brazil, motivated by the crisis of the two institutions that existed until then. As a measure of recovery of services provided, the Department of Posts and Telegraphs (DCT) was created. At that time, the Postal-Telegraphic Museum was also created, which was under the responsibility of the Communications Service of the General Directorate, known as SCO-DG. It should be noted that the creation of the Postal-Telegraph Museum was the object of the same Decree that created the DCT.

Located at the beginning of the Library Room, the museum until 1934 had no definite space until its transfer to the DCT Improvement School building and was installed on the second floor of the Tijuca branch building, located at Rua Conde de Bonfim , Rio de Janeiro.

From the Postal and Telegraph Museum to the National Post Office Museum

After the extinction of the DCT and the creation of the Brazilian Post and Telegraph Company, by decree of March 20, 1969, an ordinance was signed in the early 1970s to create a Working Group for the organization of a new museum. Postal and Telegraph Museum, which was inaugurated in Brasilia on January 15, 1980, beginning a new chapter in the history of the historical collections gathered initially in the nineteenth century.

This museum was open to the public until 2001, when it closed for reforms, and all its collection was transferred to the campus of the Corporate University of Post.Reopened only on January 25, 2012, in modern facilities, called the National Post Office Museum, it inherits part of these historical collections and is the center of a project of much larger institutional memory, which is concerned not only with the localized pieces in Brasilia, but with the preservation of the day-to-day business of the company in its multiple aspects, in a vision that seeks to restore that same that, in 1889, presided over the creation of the old Postal Museum.

Building

The building has 7 floors, with five dedicated to exhibitions, as well as an auditorium with capacity for 90 people, focused on music shows and plays, as well as Cinema shows.

Technical staff

The multidisciplinary team works to catalog, organize and preserve seals, documents, manuscripts, books, equipment and pieces of various natures. The exhibitions themselves bring to the eyes of the public treasures, bringing the population closer to the history of the Post Office, the evolution of the media and the philatelic collection.

Charts and mission

after its reopening in 2012, the Correios Museum plays a fundamental role in the rescue and preservation of the history of the Post Office in Brazil. Inherited the efforts of the Postal Museum (1889), Museum of Telegraphs (1906), Postal-Telegraphic Museum (1931). Currently the collection has more than one million pieces, in continuous expansion. The unit has also stood out in the Brazilian scenario with a varied and inclusive program, guaranteeing the access of students and the general public to various cultural events. In May 2014, with the modernization of the Correios brand, the National Post Office Museum became known as the Correios Museum.

Edits the magazine Postcards - Magazine of the Museum of the Post . 

Source: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museu_Nacional_dos_Correios