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Ninety seconds on Malta Postal Museum
As of November 2026, the museum opens Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 16:00 and on Saturday from 10:00 to 14:00. A private event in the building can close a gallery or the rooftop, so a phone call ahead settles it.
Yes. The museum houses a fully operational post office offering MaltaPost services, including stamps, registered mail and philatelic products, so a card or letter can be stamped and sent from inside the building.
Visitor guides describe activity sheets for children aged about eight to thirteen, along with role play, stamp design and postcard activities. What is offered changes, so ask at reception what is on that day.
The museum is at 135 Archbishop Street, Valletta VLT 1444, near the Grand Master's Palace. Its phone number is +356 2596 1750, and staff can confirm the day's hours and any gallery closures.
Tickets are sold at the counter inside the museum during opening hours, and the home page of the museum's website carries a link for buying them online before a visit.
Yes. The museum's spaces can be hired privately for talks, screenings, workshops and small-scale events, cultural or corporate, and a rooftop terrace is available for smaller, more intimate functions.
Between the Halfpenny Yellow of 1860 and the issues of 2010, every Maltese stamp is held in this restored townhouse on Archbishop Street, so you can follow the island's whole stamp record in one visit.
The displays follow communication in Malta from the time of the Knights of St John to the present day, and the Knights' own postal service has displays of its own. Letters and postal markings show the routes, dates and journeys behind the post, which a loose stamp cannot.
On the second floor, stamps from 1975 to 2000 share the rooms with letters from before the Knights' arrival through to the Second World War.
Historic post boxes, postal uniforms and sorting equipment are on show, along with mailbags from the 18th century and wartime correspondence.
The house that stood here was destroyed in the bombing of 1942, and the building you walk through replaced it in 1947.
The clearest route is the displays in date order first, then back to the designs that caught your eye. Ships, paintings, plants, animals and buildings all turn up on Maltese issues, so comparing one subject across the decades is a good way through the cases.
The galleries are stacked up the house, floor by floor. Visitors report a lift between the floors as well as the stairs.
The building also works as an arts hub, with photography shows, talks, screenings and workshops in some rooms. Groups can book a guided tour, tailored to their interests, ages and the time they have.
Finish at the post office inside the museum, and ask at its counter about personalised stamps.
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