Description of the attraction
The Postal Service Museum in the city of Chelyabinsk is the only museum of this type in the entire Southern Urals. More than 17 thousand exhibits are presented in the museum, thanks to which you can trace a whole layer of the history of mail and postal business not only in the Chelyabinsk region, but throughout the country. The Postal Museum allows you to look into the past of the Russian post office and get acquainted with the biographies of people who have made a huge contribution to its development.
The initiator of the creation of this unusual and interesting museum was Vladimir Obraztsov, the director of the FPS of the Chelyabinsk region, a branch of the FSUE Russian Post. The inauguration of the museum took place in March 2007.
The museum consists of three exhibition halls: a large hall, a hall “Front and rear. Postmen - connected wars”and the“Life of the postman”hall.
The expositions of the large hall reflect the entire history of the post office and its development. Here you can see all kinds of postage equipment and paraphernalia, state signs of postage, uniforms and a postman's workplace, mailboxes, parcels, postage publications, personal items and weight management.
In the “Life of a Postman” hall, visitors to the museum will find interesting old household items to visually familiarize themselves with the interior of Soviet-era living quarters.
In the hall “Front and rear. Postmen - connected wars”the guests are presented with a model of a military dugout, a soldier's uniform during the Great Patriotic War, front-line communications, a mailbox of the so-called military field mail and legendary triangle letters. In addition, a number of periodicals, books, stamps, albums and postcards of military themes are collected in this museum hall.
Among all the exhibits of the Museum of Postal Service, the visitors are especially interested in the model "Postal Station of the XIX century", the postal map of the Russian Empire in 1852, metal chests of 1899 and 1912, intended for storing valuables, as well as a card index of modern and old postal cards of various subjects, and, of course, a miniature sculpture of a postman.
