We have built an almost 400-year-long journey.
Join us on the journey. You can try out our big, kind mail horse and our grand mail stagecoach. Can you lift a full mailbag? Test yourself! Travel with us in our railway-carriage and help us sort letters. Meet postal employees from today and from the past. Listen to what our vehicles have to say. When you travel to the 1980s, you can visit our post office. Are the postal uniforms nice? Back to the present, you can try them on.
Post comes from Posita statio which is Latin for post station which was a place where messengers would change horses. The Post exhibition is the story of the senders and receivers. But above all about the employees. Those who have laboured over land and sea, mountain and valley, in the city and through deep forests. The mail must reach its destination.
The Post Office was founded in 1636. It sprang from the most human need: to communicate. Over the course of centuries, our society and our needs change. So the postal system also changes. When a lone courier rode with the message of the king’s death in Germany in 1632, it took about a month to reach Stockholm. Today, the news of big events reach us at lightning speed. It’s almost dizzying.
Guided Tours and School Programs
If you want to book a guided tour of our Post exhibition, or any of our other exhibitions, please email us: museivisningar@postnord.com
At a later date, we will start accommodating school programs in our Post exhibition as well. The school programs will be aimed at Year 2 and older. We can adjust the program to suit your wishes.
This happens in Post!
Vehicles
Listen! The ice boat Simpan, the stagecoach and the mail car Tjorven – what are their stories?
Lilla Nygatan 6
Our building was the first one the Post Office bought. See how it has changed.
Maps
Look at beautiful maps from the 18th century as well as the postal delivery maps from 1990.
Horses
Look at beautiful maps from the 18th century as well as the postal delivery maps from 1990.
Letters
How did you write letters in the 17th century? Experience the letter-room.
The post office
Step into a post office from the 1980s. What did yours look like?
The Mailbox Wardrobe
Postal uniforms have looked different throughout the years. Try on the one you like best. The stylish cape perhaps?
Working conditions
Coffee and sandwiches in the railway-carriage compartment. Again. How did the railway postmen manage to learn thousands of places by heart?
Pigs
Things don’t always go as planned. Neither then nor now. Suddenly some pigs eat up the letters.