The annual National Postal Museum Valentine’s Day Card Workshop is scheduled for Saturday, February 13, 2016 from 10am – 4pm. It is Free and no reservation is required.
National Postal Museum Valentine’s Day Card Workshop
The upcoming event may be reason enough to plan a trip to see the National Postal Museum! It was great fun to first hear about it from the Postal Museum on Twitter.
From the February 2016 event calendar:
“Love is in the details at the annual Valentine’s Day Card Workshop at the National Postal Museum.
Come out and create heart-felt handmade cards and visit the museum’s stamp store to send the cards to your loved ones with a special Postal Museum postmark!”
There is a great write up about their 2014 event:
“…430 people who participated in the program created over 800 handmade cards. Many people were also excited to learn that their mail would receive the museum’s special pictorial cancellation after mailing them from our Stamp Store. This definitely encouraged some visitors to mail their heart-felt Valentine, even if the person they were sending it to was right there with them at the time.“
From their About page: “The National Postal Museum has the largest philatelic and postal history collection of any museum in the world and the second largest collection within the Smithsonian.”
Getting to visit the Smithsonian National Postal Museum is definitely something I’m adding to my list of places to visit and it will be fun to plan. In the meantime they offer their Virtual Tour!
Anchors Aweigh,
Helen
Attribution & Thank you to the following who are referenced today —
Image shown upper left 2014 46¢ First-class rate Commemorative Cut Paper Heart U.S. stamp from U.S. Postal Service Love Series as shown on MysticStamp website.
Image above from National Postal Museum Calendar of Events for February 13, 2016
Link to January 04, 2016 Tweet from @PostalMuseum
National Postal Museum blog post excerpt from February 18, 2014 “Valentine’s Day Card Workshop a BIG Success!” by Motoko Hioki, Museum Specialist
National Postal Museum About page excerpt and Virtual Tour
