National Postal Museum

The national postal collections were started in 1881 and were first shown to the public at the national exhibition of 1885. Together with telegraph and broadcasting material, the collections had a permanent home from 1955. They moved to the present building in 2012, an architecturally distinguished post office in the centre of the capital. The museum preserves objects and documents to present the history of postal services, telegraph, telephone, radio and television. The displays include original vehicles, post boxes, telephones, exchanges and other artefacts and costumes that explain innovations in technology and the working lives of people in the telegraph, telephone and mail services. A post office from a century ago is reconstructed. Displays about the 314-m tall Lakihegy radio transmission tower built in in 1933 show why it is still the symbol of Hungarian broadcasting. Branches of the museum can be found in other parts of Hungary.