Maritime Museum, Roterdam

PostNL (Netherlands) issued a set of stamps on 12th October 2015 on ship models from the Maritime Museum, Rotterdam.

The ship models on the stamps offer a good overview of the different types of ships built over the past seven centuries. The oldest depicted ship is a Spanish freighter from 1425, and the newest is a Dutch construction ship built in 2014. Five of the ship models on the new stamps are part of the new permanent exhibit in the Maritime Museum. The exhibit comprises a total of 25 masterpieces from the museum’s centuries-old collection. 

Indian Museum, Kolkata

India Post released a souvenir sheet on 2nd February 2014 on bicentenary of Indian Museum, Kolkata.

100 years of Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

 Russia Post released a Souvenir sheet to commemorate 100 years of Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts on 6th June 2012. The stamp shows the main building of the Pushkin Museum with other artifacts of the Museum surrounding the Souvenir sheet.

Inauguration of National Philatelic Museum at New Delhi.

The National Philatelic Museum was inaugurated by Radhika Doraiswamy, secretary Department of Posts on 11th July 2011. Speaking on the occasion she said that the museum will provide enhanced and interactive platform for promoting philately and will stimulate interest for stamp collection among children.

The museum will be open Mondays to Fridays — it will also be open on Saturdays for school groups on request. It will have an entry fee but the amount has yet not been decided. ‘There will be a nominal entry fee,’ said Doraiswamy.

The museum has bays dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi and the prime ministers of India, along with freedom fighters. It also has stamps on several themes such as science and technology, transport and wildlife.There are stamps from abroad, and displays from the Army Postal Service and India Security Press, Nashik.

The museum also has an amphitheater for talk shows and presentations along with a reference library. In the artists corner, the department has showcased the actual designing of a stamp and also plans to invite artists from time to time to give live demonstrations.