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Trait d’Union, number 2, 2019 is out
The European Academy of Philately, AEP, has kindly sent us the latest issue of their newsletter Trait d’Union, number 2, 2019. It reports amongst other things the AEP at MonacoPhil 2019, The 100th anniversary of the Italian Federation during the European Thematics Championship in Verona, and announces the AEP meeting during London 2020.
The newsletter can be read here:
NAPOSTA 2020 Grand Prix to Iva Mouritsen
National stamp exhibition NAPOSTA 2020 was held in Haldensleben, Germany, on February 13 – 16, 2020. It consisted altogether of 121 exhibits in more than 800 frames representing almost every FIP class as well as 88 literature exhibits. The total number of exhibits was as high as 209.
The results were excellent. According to the jury report about half of the exhibits received large gold or gold medals! The division of medals was as follows:
Iva Mouritsen celebrating the Grand Prix NAPOSTA 2020 with her sons Christian and Viktor.
The Grand Prix NAPOSTA 2020 was given to Iva Mouritsen’s open class exhibit “A Royal Ménage à Trois and its Historical Consequences”.
The Grand Prix National was given to Manfred Rheinländer’s traditional philately exhibit “Thurn und Taxis“
The Grand Prix International was given to Johannes Bornmann’s traditional philately exhibit “Nepal, Pre-Philately and Classic”
The best of class exhibits were:
Traditional philately Johannes Bornmann: Nepal, Pre-Philately and Classic
Postal history Martin Strack: Postverhältnisse zwischen dem Vereinigten Königreich und Frankreich 1802-1875
Postal stationery Rainer von Scharpen: Ganzsachen Französische Zone 1945-1949
Airmail Peter Greipel: Schweizer Transatlantik flugpost im 2. Weltkrieg
Astrophilately Stephen Lachheim: How Became the mankind dream true to reach the stars
Thematics Dieter Egelriede: Die altgriechische Mathematik, ihre Fortentwicklung und Impulse
Open Philately Iva Mouritsen: A Royal Ménage à Trois and its Historical Consequences
Postcards Daniel Herrmann: Berlin 1916 – Der Olympiatraum, von der Rennbahn (ab 1909) bis zum deutschen Stadion (1913-1933)
Literature The Global Philatelic Network: Die österreichische Post in der Levante – 200 Jahre Habsburgische Interessen im Orient – Werner Schindler, Ausgabejahr: 2019
Youth class Niklas Köhler: Die Postverträge von 1801 und 1824 im Zusammenhang mit den Verwendungen der Rayonstempel in Baden
All results can be found here.
Reopening of the Post Museum in Paris
The Musée de La Poste is reinventing itself with the reopening at the foot of the Montparnasse Tower. After a hard work and successful work of renovation, the Musée de La Poste reveal is enlightening its extraordinary collections in its new spaces.
Reaffirming its cultural and heritage ambition in the French museum landscape, the Musée de La Poste has been the subject – since April 2015 – of a complete rehabilitation of its building by the Jung Architectures workshop. The Musée de La Poste will unveil a new museographic and architectural concept with a completely redesigned scenography and a new distribution of its spaces: reception gallery and its “Totem” crossing the 3 platforms of permanent exhibitions, spaces dedicated to workshops, gallery of temporary exhibition, boutique, auditorium and private spaces.
Official inauguration of the museum.
At the same time an enterprise museum, a museum of society, a neighbourhood museum, the Musée de La Poste labelled “Musée de France” is responsible for presenting, preserving and disseminating postal heritage.
Claude Desarménien, President of the Fédération Française des Associations Philatéliques, and Bernard Jimenez, FIP Vice President at the opening.
Accessible to all in optimal conditions of visit, the renovated Post Office Museum will highlight its collections for a journey to the heart of the history of the Post Office, postal art and philately from yesterday to tomorrow.
This new cultural destination in the heart of the capital will tell the story of a company intimately linked to that of France.
The Post Office Museum returns to its walls, renovated, upgraded, bright and accessible to all in optimal conditions of visit. The building, designed by the architect André Chatelin, Grand Prix of Rome, had been inaugurated in 1973. Emblematic of the architecture of the 1970s, its facade was worked by the sculptor Robert Juvin who gave life to the three reserved blind levels to collections. Using small-scale molded concrete, evoking the intaglio of a large-scale stamp – the serrations blending in with the grooves in the facade – helps create an original topography.
We are sure you all who loves the stamps and the Postal History will enjoy your visit to the French Postal Museum in Paris.