There’s even a great dress-up section where kids can reenact the famous lioness incident! My three had a great time designing their own stamps, dressing up as a Postwoman and Telegram Messenger Boy, and trying to decipher Morse code. Interactive exhibits invite kids of all ages to play and learn. Vintage Royal Mail posters at the Postal Museum On display are five-wheeled cycles invented to deliver letters faster, a Royal Mail stagecoach from the 1800s, post buses and a Royal Mail embossed Morris Minor. The brilliantly interactive main exhibition charts the origins of the postal service and includes lots of quirky stories such as the cryptic Victorian valentine cards and how an escaped lioness once disrupted the mail service on Salisbury Plain. The museum is divided into four sections the Postal Museum Exhibition that traces the origins of the postal system, Sorted!, a fantastic play space for kids, the Mail Rail, a subterranean railway that once whisked four million letters a day across London and the Mail Rail Exhibition, which covers the history of the underground mail train system.ĭressing up at the Postal Museum The Postal Museum Exhibition The London Postal Museum Sorting parcels at the Postal Museum Wondering where to stay in London? Take a look at our complete neighbourhood guide Our 12 favourite places for ice cream in London
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