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The long Beaux-Arts facade of the former City Post Office, home of the National Postal Museum, with museum banners between its columns.
Free entry

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National Postal Museum

The National Postal Museum is a Smithsonian museum opened in 1993 in the former City Post Office, a 1914 Beaux-Arts building beside Union Station. It covers the postal history of the United States and other countries, with a large stamp gallery, three mail planes, a stagecoach, a replica railway mail car and a 1931 Ford Model A mail truck.

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Free entry

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Is National Postal Museum free?

Yes. Entry to National Postal Museum is free.

Free entry

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