The Little Post Office

Since 1996, the Post Office, much loved by children, has been situated in the basement of the museum. Assisted by the museum's teaching staff, school and pre-school children can discover what it was like to work for the Post Office in the 1920s.

Since 1996 the children can literally perform the work of postmen, parcel drivers, cashiers and sorting office staff, and the children take their work very seriously. There is also a special children's museum on the Postal Service, and a large table for them to write letters and draw their own picture postcards and stamps.

The Little Post Office is open to all during weekends and school holidays 12 am - 3 pm, but at other times, it is reserved for pre-booked groups.

Questions? Tel. +46-8-781 17 58.

The Letter - a journey through time

This primary exhibition deals with the history of the Post Office and shows how letters have been sent and delivered for more than 370 years. The visitor can meet some of the people who worked for the Post Office from 1636 to the present day, and view the enviroments in which they worked.

In the 17th century section, we see the mail-carrying farmhand running through the woods on his way to the next post-farm. Another scene shows the mail-carrying farmers stuggling with the ice-boat Simpan, on their way across the Baltic Sea while the ice is breaking up. Postmaster Hjelm looks out through the hatch to see who has come to collect mail.

In the main hall we can see the first mail-carrying bus "Ettan" ("Number One"), which ran between Lycksele and Tvärålund in the early 1920's.

The exhibition also tells us about railway post, rural and urban postmen, airmail, and much more! In the Reception of the museum you can much collect a digital guide in English!

Questions? Tel. +46-8-781 17 16.

Remarkable!

In an imaginative way, this permanent exhibition features themes such as the history of stamps and the processes of production, from pictorial design, through engraving, to the finished product. It also presents the stamp as a picture, a social phenomenon and a collectable.

Both classic philatelic and modern thematic collections are shown. The exhibition also includes a sensational item: the Swedish artist Olof Arborelius' sketchbook from the end of the 1850s including 22 pasted-in stamps. This is probably the oldest stamp collection in the world that has survived in its original form.

The exhibition tells us about known and unknown stamp collectors, about the famous forgery of the Yellow Three skilling and about how the postcard became popular.

Questions? Tel. +46-8-781 17 54.

Temporary exhibitions

6 October 2009 – 11 April 2010
Post Pals – Pen Friends
Post Pals was started in the autumn
term of 2007 by Posten (Swedish
Post Office) in collaboration with
the sponsorship organisation Barnfonden
(Children's fund).
The idea is that school classes
across the world swap knowledge
with one another through correspondence.
The exhibiton shows
letters, pictures, films etc.

21 October 2009 – 21 january 2010
Black as the night
This exhibition is based on the
collection of postcards of chimney
sweeps by Lotta Dahlbäck Lindén
and her husband Ulf. The chimney
sweep may be black and frightening
but he may also be a symbol of luck.
The most common form of chimney
sweep-card is the New Year card.

March 26 – September 12 2010
Advertising, yes please!
The exhibition tells the story of
advertising in Sweden, with the Post
Office campaigns as examples. The
emphasis is on the last 60 years when
advertising, society and the Post
Office underwent great changes.
In the advertising material, we
can see what is happening in a
society and how it has developed.
Advertising has survived economic
depressions, stock market euphoria
and political changes and is today
part of our society.
Imagine a day without any
advertising and trademarks at all!

April 21 – October 10 2010
Men, men, men...
In 2006, Postmuseum exhibited a
collection of women on postcards
belonging to the author Siw
Widerberg.
One of Siw’s friends enquired
jokingly whether she did not have
any cards of men too, or were they
inferior in some way?
She immediately went home and
sent a card of a naked man with the
reply “No, I collect dishy men like
this as well”.
It is now time for Siw’s men to be
exhibited at Postmuseum!

Information Tel. +46-8-781 17 13.


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