ZOOM PROGRAM AVAILABLE "Pushing the Envelope - A History of the Post Office Through Stamps" is available for Zoom presentations to libraries, senior centers and other organizations. Click Zoom for more details.  If you would like a link in how to register to watch one of these programs, email to Zoom. Programs are currently scheduled for  Dec. 2 and 16 ATTENTION TEACHERS: If you would like some free stamps, both US and worldwide, to use with your students to create a geography or history lesson, just email your request to teachers. We can also give you some ideas.

VIRTUAL TOUR OF OUR GALLERIES

If you have not yet taken our twelve minute virtual tour of our galleries, we hope you can take some time and give it a look. Just click on  tour. You can also watch all our YouTube YouTube..

CELEBRATE THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NINETEENTH AMENDMENT This summer the Museum had planned a special exhibit celebrating women getting the right to vote 100 years ago this year. Although Covid-19 caused the Museum to close, Museum curator George Norton still prepared a display of stamps on over 120 interpretive panels tracing the history of female suffrage from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention to the adoption of the 19th amendment on August 20, 1920. He also included an overview of women's suffrage in other countries. With the help of Alanna Muldoon and Brian Gordon of the Weston Media Center, a virtual tour of the exhibit has been produced. To view this ten minute tour, click on suffrage.

A PHILATELIC THANKSGIVING PARADE

Covid-19 has caused Macy's to cancel its 2020 Thanksgiving parade but you can still get in the spirit of the day with this set of four parade stamps issued in 2009.to commemorate this memorable annual event, Because of USPS policy restricting the promotion of commercial businesses when stamps are issued, these stamps did not identify Macy’s as a corporate sponsor of the parade nor acknowledge the commercial origins of the parade, Also the very term -- Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade ® -- is a registered trademark owned by Macy’s. Ironically, Macy’s actually proposed and campaigned for the stamp and provided posters and other developmental artwork to consider during the stamp’s design phase. Macy’s even took the highly unusual step of paying for a full page ad in the New York Times announcing the stamps’ issuance, and hosting the first day of issue ceremony at its Herald Square store. Interestinglly, the parade was also cancelled in 1942, 1943 and 1944 because of the shorage of rubber and helium due to the war. (Newspaper notice below) NATURE NOTE: Some visitors to the Museum when they see this conervation stamp say they did not realize that wild turkeys could fly. See what you can learn from a stamp.

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SINGAPORE STAMPS EDUCATE CHILDREN ABOUT KEEPING SAFE FROM THE VIRUS

The set of six stamps was launched on 4th September 2020 as a tribute to members of the education fraternity for their hard work in ensuring that students can continue to learn in a safe environment amid the pandemic.The ministry will give all teachers an envelope each with the set of stamps from Monday onwards as a token of gratitude for their efforts. The stamp set features five superheroes – Virus Screener Varun, who reminds students to check their temperature daily; Mask Up Mei Mei, who champions wearing a mask; Super Soaper Soffy, the mascot for washing hands; Hands Down Hana, who reminds students not to touch their faces with their hands; and Wipe Up Wilson, who encourages students to keep surfaces clean. The sixth stamp features all the superheroes.

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PHILIPPINES STAMPS AIMED TOWARD THE CHILDREN ABOUT THE VIRUS This stamp set features five superheroes – Virus Screener Varun, who reminds students to check their temperature daily; Mask Up Mei Mei, who champions wearing a mask; Super Soaper Soffy, the mascot for washing hands; Hands Down Hana, who reminds students not to touch their faces with their hands; and Wipe Up Wilson, who encourages students to keep surfaces clean. The sixth stamp features all the superheroes.

CAN YOU GIVE US A HAND? As we look forward to safely reopening the Museum , we have continued sharing our educational programs electronically and creating exhibits to be shared with all of our enthusiasts – ages 6-60 and 9-90! Please support our efforts using this link. And consider a membership or donation. An individual membership is $50. Other categories are on our website at .membership.

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YOUTH CLUB MEMBERSHIP OPEN

The Museum is offering a free, one year membership for children ages 6 to 16 in our Youth Club. Children receive a monthly packet of topical stamps, worksheets and philatelic information, a discount in the Museum store, a monthly stamp calendar plus free admission for themselves and the family. For more information email to Club.

FREE EDUCATIONAL CALENDAR If you would like to receive our monthly calendar/almanac that features stamps which celebrate historic events of each weekday of the month, email to calendar.  On November 24, 1954, First Lady Mamie Eisenhower christened the first plane to be designated Air Force One. FREE SET OF UNITED NATIONS FIRST DAY COVERS. Email your request to FDC.

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