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.
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Nordia 2020 will be held at Malmö on September 4-6, 2020. The organization committee has recently published Bulletin 1.
The president of the organizing committee, Mr. Lars Nordberg, welcomes everybody to take part:
“The team has planned this exhibition since before 2018, when Malmex 2018 took place in the same place. Based on this experience, we are proud to invite you to an even better, larger and more international philatelic exhibition with participation of important international organizations. We know that the exhibition area has good lighting, plenty of space, and hotel accommodation just across the street with a sky bar on the 16th floor with panoramic windows in all directions. Here you get a unique view of Malmö and Öresund.”
Bulletin 1 contains an application form as well as IREX of the exhibition.
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Every London international stamp exhibition has historically attracted many of the best exhibits from across the world, and this is certainly true of London 2020. Regrettably, the organisers have had to turn down many top class exhibits but hope that the goal of offering the visitor examples of the finest exhibits across a wide range of subjects has been achieved.
As with previous International stamp exhibitions held at the Business Design Centre in Upper Street, Islington, this exhibition is divided, for the purposes of the competitive exhibits, into two halves.
On Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, 2 to 5 May, exhibits will be shown covering Postal History, Revenues, Postal Stationery, Open Class, Postcards (experimental class), and part of the Youth section.
Over Tuesday night every frame will be dismounted and new exhibits will be mounted. Thus, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 6 to 9 May, exhibits will be shown covering Traditional, Thematic, Aero and the remaining part of Youth plus the World Stamp Championship class.
As usual for the once every decade London FIP International exhibition, the available frames were heavily over-subscribed. However, by using some ingenuity and finding room for frames in every conceivable corner of the space, the organisers have been able to increase the number of frames from 2,750 to 3,400 across the two halves. This was achieved despite a tight budget. Therefore, London 2020 is showing that it is able to stand on its own feet and, at the same time, is bigger in frame numbers than either the 2010 FIP International or the 2015 FEPA exhibitions.
Each half of the exhibition is dominated by either the Postal History (186 exhibits) or the Traditional (147 exhibits) classes, offering material from every continent and from every period. Everything is covered from Aden to Zululand. In addition, the Postal Stationery class offers 36 exhibits, the Revenue class 23 exhibits while in the the Aerophilately class there are 26 exhibits. Among the other classes, there are 43 exhibits of Thematic Philately, 32 exhibits in the Open Class, a class that has been growing in popularity at national and international levels, and 15 exhibits in the experimental Picture Post Card class. The popular ‘One Frame’ class has generated over 100 exhibits across all classes.
The organisers are pleased to announce that there are 39 Youth exhibits across all three age categories, coming from a number of countries across the world. The only disappointment is there are very few ‘Modern’ exhibits (defined as material from approximately the last 20 years). Although such material is widely collected, it seems not by those who wish to exhibit.
To the surprise of the organisers, there are also over 250 literature exhibits (believed to be a record for any FIP exhibition) including over 30 in the digital literature class, all of which can be seen in the Reading Room at the exhibition.
Every visitor will enjoy some of the finest collections across the wide spectrum of philately, and has the opportunity to see and learn about their own and other interests; and will also be able to see many and varied examples of how to display material. It will be another decade until a similar opportunity arises, so a visit is thoroughly recommend – or rather two visits, one for each half of the exhibition.
The international Jury will be headed by Jury President Chris Harman, with Andrew Cheung, Brian Trotter and Dan Walker as Jury Vice-Presidents. The Jury Secretary will be Lars Engelbrecht, assisted by Michael Smith. The FIP Jury Honorary President is Bernie Beston, while the FIP Consultant is Bernard Jimenez.
For more information, go to www.london2020.co/mailchimp/ to receive newsletter updates about the progress of the exhibition and receive important announcements as they are made.
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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.
Nordia 2020 Bulletin 1 is out
Nordia 2020 will be held at Malmö on September 4-6, 2020. The organization committee has recently published Bulletin 1.
The president of the organizing committee, Mr. Lars Nordberg, welcomes everybody to take part:
“The team has planned this exhibition since before 2018, when Malmex 2018 took place in the same place. Based on this experience, we are proud to invite you to an even better, larger and more international philatelic exhibition with participation of important international organizations. We know that the exhibition area has good lighting, plenty of space, and hotel accommodation just across the street with a sky bar on the 16th floor with panoramic windows in all directions. Here you get a unique view of Malmö and Öresund.”
Bulletin 1 contains an application form as well as IREX of the exhibition.
You can read the Bulletin here:
Something for every collector
Press release
Every London international stamp exhibition has historically attracted many of the best exhibits from across the world, and this is certainly true of London 2020. Regrettably, the organisers have had to turn down many top class exhibits but hope that the goal of offering the visitor examples of the finest exhibits across a wide range of subjects has been achieved.
As with previous International stamp exhibitions held at the Business Design Centre in Upper Street, Islington, this exhibition is divided, for the purposes of the competitive exhibits, into two halves.
On Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, 2 to 5 May, exhibits will be shown covering Postal History, Revenues, Postal Stationery, Open Class, Postcards (experimental class), and part of the Youth section.
Over Tuesday night every frame will be dismounted and new exhibits will be mounted. Thus, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 6 to 9 May, exhibits will be shown covering Traditional, Thematic, Aero and the remaining part of Youth plus the World Stamp Championship class.
As usual for the once every decade London FIP International exhibition, the available frames were heavily over-subscribed. However, by using some ingenuity and finding room for frames in every conceivable corner of the space, the organisers have been able to increase the number of frames from 2,750 to 3,400 across the two halves. This was achieved despite a tight budget. Therefore, London 2020 is showing that it is able to stand on its own feet and, at the same time, is bigger in frame numbers than either the 2010 FIP International or the 2015 FEPA exhibitions.
Each half of the exhibition is dominated by either the Postal History (186 exhibits) or the Traditional (147 exhibits) classes, offering material from every continent and from every period. Everything is covered from Aden to Zululand. In addition, the Postal Stationery class offers 36 exhibits, the Revenue class 23 exhibits while in the the Aerophilately class there are 26 exhibits. Among the other classes, there are 43 exhibits of Thematic Philately, 32 exhibits in the Open Class, a class that has been growing in popularity at national and international levels, and 15 exhibits in the experimental Picture Post Card class. The popular ‘One Frame’ class has generated over 100 exhibits across all classes.
The organisers are pleased to announce that there are 39 Youth exhibits across all three age categories, coming from a number of countries across the world. The only disappointment is there are very few ‘Modern’ exhibits (defined as material from approximately the last 20 years). Although such material is widely collected, it seems not by those who wish to exhibit.
To the surprise of the organisers, there are also over 250 literature exhibits (believed to be a record for any FIP exhibition) including over 30 in the digital literature class, all of which can be seen in the Reading Room at the exhibition.
Every visitor will enjoy some of the finest collections across the wide spectrum of philately, and has the opportunity to see and learn about their own and other interests; and will also be able to see many and varied examples of how to display material. It will be another decade until a similar opportunity arises, so a visit is thoroughly recommend – or rather two visits, one for each half of the exhibition.
The international Jury will be headed by Jury President Chris Harman, with Andrew Cheung, Brian Trotter and Dan Walker as Jury Vice-Presidents. The Jury Secretary will be Lars Engelbrecht, assisted by Michael Smith. The FIP Jury Honorary President is Bernie Beston, while the FIP Consultant is Bernard Jimenez.
For more information, go to www.london2020.co/mailchimp/ to receive newsletter updates about the progress of the exhibition and receive important announcements as they are made.