Kőszegi Postamúzeum
A museum in the former house of Kőszeg’s postmaster, presenting the history of postal travel, mail delivery and postal censorship.
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About the museum
The centuries-old house was once owned by the postmaster Samuel Gerhauser. The dilapidated building was renovated in line with heritage-conservation requirements, and a postal-history exhibition opened in the ground-floor rooms. Already in the early modern period an important travel route ran past Kőszeg, so the exhibition’s guiding theme is travel and the transport of post. The first room evokes the history of transport and travel from the 15th to 18th centuries with engravings, a postilion dressed in period costume, and models of a wagon and a diligence. The second room shows the imperial censorship (“cabinet noir”), which operated until the first half of the 19th century, in action.
Highlights
- Postal coaches on the European postal routes
- The history of the letterbox
- The world’s postmen on postage stamps
- Presentation of imperial mail censorship
Permanent exhibitions
- Postakocsik az európai postautakon – Transport and travel history from the 15th to 18th centuries, shown through engravings, maps and vehicle models.
- „Kis… Skatulyaszívek” – A levélszekrény története – The development of the letterbox.
- A világ postásai bélyegképeken – Postmen seen through postage stamps.
- A levélcenzúra történetéből – How imperial censorship worked.
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