2018Museum Exhibits - 95 years since the founding of the PTT Museum - First Day Cover

Postal-Telegraphic-Telephone Museum in Belgrade functions as a museum within the Public Enterprise Post of Serbia. Being a technical museum, it deals with the protection, collection, study and exhibition of objects and documents related to the operation and development of postal, telegraphic and telephone communications.

PTT museum was founded on July 31, 1923, when the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes adopted the Museum Rulebook. At the beginning, the fund of the PTT Museum was in the building of the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs in 49, Deligradska Street and from the year 1930 it was located on the fifth floor of the newly built building of the Ministry in 2, Palmoticeva Street, but it was not open for public.

Significant time for PTT museum was the period from 1950 until the museum was opened for visitors in 1958, when the intensive works were done on collection, organization, systematization and scientific processing of archival materials and exhibits.

PTT museum was officially opened for public on June 14, 1958, and the exhibit was realized in accordance with the contemporary state-of-the-art concepts of the museum's presentation.

Realizing the importance of the museum as an institution, PE PTT communications Serbia started the project of reconstructing the museum and new permanent museum exhibition in 2010. Reconstruction included the whole museum exhibit space, depots for exhibit storage and museum library, and everything was done in accordance with the latest museum standards for exhibiting and preserving museum exhibits. At the same time, the most modern audio and video equipment was purchased for the needs of presentations, lectures and workshops within the museum.

The museum exhibition is divided into six sections and it represents a chronological overview of the development of PTT communications from 1815 to now, with various exhibits that interdependently and mutually illuminate the social, cultural and economic history in addition to the history of communication of the modern Serbian state. New, reconstructed museum space and new permanent exhibition were officially opened for public on June 7, 2013.

Expert collaboration: Postal-telegraphic-telephone Museum, Belgrade.

Artistic realization: Nadežda Skočajić, Academic Graphic Artist