Near Montparnasse station, the Musée Postal traces six centuries of message delivery, from post horses to drones. Founded in 1946 and housed since 1973 in a building with a brutalist façade on boulevard de Vaugirard, it reopened in November 2019 after several years of renovation. The permanent exhibition fills three levels: transport and telecommunications, postal trades, then stamps and postal art, with a panorama of French stamps from 1849 to the present day. Known as the Musée de La Poste until April 2026, it has returned to its original name.
Highlights
The post office around 1900
On level 3, devoted to postmen, counter clerks and sorters, a counter from around 1900 recreates the setting of a post office, with its glazed windows, clocks and gilded monogram. Around it, old letterboxes, postmen’s uniforms and signs tell the story of the mail trades.
Telegraph and telephone
On level 4, devoted to the speed of communications, devices such as this Morse apparatus known as the “Municipal”, in its wooden case, mark the route from Chappe’s optical telegraph, at the end of the eighteenth century, to the telephone. The same floor covers the post-horse system, then mail carried by train, ship and plane.
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Tips
A ticket costs €11, €9 when no temporary exhibition is on, and €6 reduced for visitors aged 65 and over (prices checked in September 2026). Entry is free for under-26s, jobseekers, disabled visitors and their companion, and for everyone on the first Sunday of the month. On level -1, lockers take backpacks and wheelchairs are available on loan; the multimedia guide in French and English is lent at the reception desk. Start on level 4 and work your way down floor by floor.
How to get there
Metro Montparnasse-Bienvenüe, lines 4, 6, 12 and 13 (exit 2); Pasteur, lines 6 and 12; Falguière, line 12. Buses 28, 39, 58, 88, 91, 92, 94 and 95, Armorique–Musée Postal or Gare Montparnasse stops. Address: 34 boulevard de Vaugirard, 75015 Paris.
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