The BPMA Search Room will be closed on Mondays from 12 October 2015 in order to prepare collections for the move to The Postal Museum
Heritage Licensing appointed as licensing agency, making many of the treasures fromthe BPMA's vast collections available for licensing
On Thursday 9 July duplicate vintage GPO posters will be put up for online auction
Rick Wills appointed as new Chair to deliver The Postal Museum and Mail Rail
Viridor Credits and AIM Biffa Award funding grants for The Postal Museum and Mail Rail
The Archive Search Room will be closed from Monday 1 June till Friday 12 June (inclusive). We will reopen at 10am on Saturday 13 June for our regular monthly Saturday opening.Email, letter and telephone enquiries will continue to be dealt with, but response times may be a little longer than usual.
Between Wednesday 13 and Saturday 16 May the British Postal Museum & Archive will be at London 2015 Europhilex. On the stand there will be a dynamic display showcasing material from the BPMA’s Philatelic Collection, which are not currently accessible to the public, including an original cast of the iconic Machin Head. Interactive 3D scans of […]
Today the British Postal Museum & Archive has announced that transport engineering specialist Severn Lamb has been brought on board to develop and construct the train for the Mail Rail ride, opening as part of The Postal Museum in 2016. The immersive Mail Rail ride will take visitors back in time to see what life […]
24 April 2015 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of novelist Anthony Trollope. Trollope began his working life at the Post Office where he was responsible for introducing the now iconic pillar box to the UK. The British Postal Museum & Archive is undertaking a series of activities to celebrate both his bicentenary and […]
