National stamp collection has a new home at Canadian Museum of History
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GATINEAU, Qc – The stamps once displayed at the Canadian Postal Museum have a new home.
The Canadian Museum of History will launch the Canadian Stamp Collection on March 28. The collection was formerly shown at the postal museum, which closed in November 2012.
The new permanent exhibition comprises all 3,000 or so postage stamps issued in Canada from 1851 (when the very first stamp featured the image of a beaver) to the present. It’s a comprehensive display that can’t be seen anywhere else, the museum of history says.
As well, artifacts from the museum’s collections will be used to illustrate little-known stories behind the creation of some of Canada’s most memorable stamps, said a spokesperson. Examples include the stained-glass window reproduced in the Nativity stamp of 1976, and a quilt replicated on the 1996 Canada Day stamp.
The exhibition will be presented in a gallery on level 1 near the Grand Hall.
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Online: www.historymuseum.ca