China National Post and Postage Stamp Museum

Located at No. 6, West Gongyuan Street inside Jianguomen Gate, China National Post and Postage Stamp Museum displays the origins of the country's postal service, development, and over 300,000 stamps from all over the world. The exhibition area is about 6,578 square yards (5,500 square meters) with a total of over 100,000,000 items on exhibit. The collection includes some really rare items, such as Penny Black and Large Dragon - the first stamp of the world and China respectively.

Stamp Hall

This hall contains three galleries: The Main Gallery has 104 frames, displaying stamps in five groups - collections from four historical periods in China, and representatives from foreign countries. Special Gallery exhibits original paintings for the stamps since 1949. There are 34 paintings made by nine famous painters on display in this gallery. On the fourth floor, the Treasure Gallery exhibits rare items issued beginning with the Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1911). Many of them are well known to the world, but rarely seen.

Postal Service Hall

The Postal Service Hall covers the third floor and part of the fourth floor of the museum. It depicts the development of the ancient postal service through characters, pictures, charts and models. The hall exhibits items related to the following themes: primitive communication; ancient postal service; establishment, development and decline of the national postal service in the Qing Dynasty; contributions of postal service during war times; establishment of the General Post Office; and the contemporary postal service.

Take bus 1, Te 2, 52, 99, 120, 126, 140, 637, or 666, and get off at Beijing Zhankou East Station.