USA ~National Postal Museum - Owney - Washington~

 Postcard for this Weekends theme - Museum/university/library and I'm glad to share one I really love... ➜ ➜ read more: Connections to the World!


 ...A perfect choice of postcard... nice view from the Postal Museum especially for a postcard and dog lover... with such a lovely story attached... would like to visit it someday... and fantastic special stamp cancellation... Thanks a lot Kathy!! (✿ ♥‿♥)

The National Postal Museum, a Smithsonian Institution museum, is located in the old Post Office building next to Union Station in Washington, D.C. The Museum was created by an agreement between the Smithsonian Institution and the United States Postal Service in 1990 and opened to the public in 1993.


Story about Owney:
A stray mutt wandered into an Albany, New York post office in 1888 and eventually became the unofficial mascot of the Railway Mail Service. He rode with mail mail bags on trains across the country protecting the precious cargo along the way. Railway man clerks attached medals and tags,(when he jogs along, they jingle like the bells on a junk wagon)  to his collar to record the dog's travels and in 1895 Owney traveled with mailbags on steamships to Asia and across Europe.
The story of Owney is told in the exhibition "Mail by Rail" in the museum gallery "Moving the Mail".

Stamp:

Global Forever stamp
(Issued: 28-01-2013)

UKRAINE ~museum of Folk Architecture and Way of Life of the Middle Dnipro Region 10C~

Received another really lovely card from Alex today! It must be a great place to visit this open air museum and take a step back in time...to see all the old houses of Ukraine that are collected here.... THANKS A LOT Alex!!:D
With a set of 4 nice stamps!!

Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi, museum of Folk Architecture and Way of Life of the Middle Dnipro Region, Barton of Kievite, 10th century, Ukraine,
Construction of museums in the area of 30 hectares was launched in 1964 in Tatarska mountain to honor the 150 th anniversary of T. Shevchenko. Area meets the conditions under which a settlement occurred in ancient times, and at a later time. The mountain remains of monuments of ancient time (period bronze mound, the remains of the settlement and burial ground chernyakhivska Culture II-V centurie.
The museum is an important cultural and educational institutions to help assess the cultural heritage of the past, reveal traces of interference of cultures, see our history, to assess spirituality.

BELARUS

View of one of the most popular historic museums in Belarus!
With cute stamps!

Reservation Museum of culture and history "Zaslawye". Building of Childfren's museum of forest and mythology.