National Postal Museum

museum in Washington, D.C., a division of the Smithsonian Institution
Organization postal_museum Q144900
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National Postal Museum

Summary

National Postal Museum is a postal museum[1]. It draws 45 Wikipedia views per month (postal_museum category, ranking #1 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • National Postal Museum was a member of International Association of Transport and Communications Museums[3].
  • National Postal Museum is located in Washington, D.C.[4].
  • National Postal Museum is in the country of United States[5].
  • National Postal Museum's image is recorded as National postal museum.jpg[6].
  • National Postal Museum's image is recorded as National Postal Museum at night.jpg[7].
  • National Postal Museum's instance of is recorded as postal museum[8].
  • National Postal Museum's ISNI is recorded as 0000000404805826[9].
  • National Postal Museum's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 158108604[10].
  • National Postal Museum's GND ID is recorded as 10134012-6[11].
  • National Postal Museum's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n97018079[12].
  • National Postal Museum's location is recorded as Postal Square Building[13].
  • National Postal Museum's part of is recorded as Smithsonian Institution[14].
  • National Postal Museum's Commons category is recorded as National Postal Museum[15].
  • +1993-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of National Postal Museum[16].
  • National Postal Museum's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 38.89805555555556, 'lon': -77.00833333333334}[17].
  • National Postal Museum's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04gmyv[18].
  • National Postal Museum's parent organization or unit is recorded as Smithsonian Institution[19].
  • National Postal Museum's official website is recorded as https://postalmuseum.si.edu/[20].
  • National Postal Museum's BIBSYS ID is recorded as 14030266[21].
  • National Postal Museum's director / manager is recorded as Elliot Gruber[22].
  • National Postal Museum's visitors per year is recorded as {'amount': '+357000'}[23].
  • National Postal Museum's described by source is recorded as Open GLAM Survey[24].
  • National Postal Museum's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'National Postal Museum'}[25].
  • National Postal Museum's GeoNames ID is recorded as 4139758[26].
  • National Postal Museum's Commons Institution page is recorded as National Postal Museum[27].

Body

Founding

+1993-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of National Postal Museum[16].

Identity

National Postal Museum's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'it'}[25]. Its part of is recorded as Smithsonian Institution[14].

Leadership

National Postal Museum's director / manager is recorded as Elliot Gruber[22].

Operations

National Postal Museum's parent organization or unit is recorded as Smithsonian Institution[19].

Why It Matters

National Postal Museum draws 45 Wikipedia views per month (postal_museum category, ranking #1 of 8).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . GRID. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . postalmuseum.si.edu. Retrieved . postalmuseum.si.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [4] . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] . GRID Release 2017-01-10. wikidata.org.
  7. [10] . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] . wikidata.org.
  10. [13] . wikidata.org.
  11. [14] . si.edu. si.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [15] . wikidata.org.
  13. [3] . web.archive.org. Retrieved . web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . GRID. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . postalmuseum.si.edu. postalmuseum.si.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Visitor Statistics. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Open GLAM Survey, version of 30 April 2020. Retrieved . docs.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . siarchives.si.edu. siarchives.si.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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