Stamping around the world

Hello dear friends. (Note: stitching update at the end).
This time I'm sharing pictures from the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum:

The museum opened in 1993 in the old City Post Office Building which was built in 1911-1914.

 

Of course I had to take a picture of the ceiling:

 

The first adhesive postal stamp (Great Britain, 1840):

Let me open it for you:

 

 A History of US Stamps:

 

 Now let's go around the world, I had to jog my memory of my bloglist countries, I hope I did not miss anyone (in case you missed, Great Britain was already covered at the top):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 "Moving the Mail" 
 (features 3 vintage airmail planes, 1931 Ford Model A postal truck, an 1851 stagecoach, a replica of a railway mail car and a full-size semi-truck cab cutaway)

  (Nice ceiling again:)

 

 

 

 

 

Owney, a stray dog who became the Mascot of railway mail service:

 

  You can search up stamps by categories, DH looked up music. Don't they look like miniature works of art?

 I tried stitching, crafts, sewing- with no luck. So I just put pop culture:) 

  And now I give you the rarest of them all (worth millions$$$!)

I hope you enjoyed the pics (sorry if it's just too much, I have a problem with editing, haha). I couldn't squeeze two museums in one post, do you want me to bleed from editing? I still have the American History, Natural History, and Air and Space Museums, which are my favorites from this trip. 

But hey, this is still a stitching blog, so here goes:

 A sneak peek of Prairie Schooler Santas. This is Sewing Santa, all done. The three others are coming to town real soon.
Thanks for visiting. Happy Stitching!