Holiday Family Day - Christmas with Stamps
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In addition, visitors can do holiday stamp hunts and games, create their own holiday stamp designs, make stamp mosaics and see displays of Christmas stamps from the USA and worldwide.
Volunteers will demonstrate how to make holiday cards and unique envelopes.
Free postage using vintage Christmas stamps will be available to mail the cards.
Door prize of $100 worth of vintage US stamps good for postage.
Children can write their letters to Santa Claus and post them in the Museum’s North Pole mailbox.
A unique North Pole museum cancellation will be added to all letters and Santa has told the museum he will write back.
Children can also have their picture taken and make it into a special postage stamp.
In addition to the Holiday stamp exhibit other displays include the “History of Christmas Seals,” “The History of Rural Free Delivery,” “Comics on Stamps,” ”The JFK Centennial” “Civil War Mail” “Owls on Stamps” “The Boston Post Road,” “Whales on Stamps” “Stamps from the FDR collection” and “Zeppelin Mail.” Current US holiday stamps will be on sale in the Museum’s official Post Office (It is open on Sunday as well but no packages.)
Tips about how to start a stamp collection will be offered and each child can make a free collection of holiday stamps to take home as well as a free packet of stamps.
Refreshments will be served.
Appointments can also be made that day for people to bring in their collections for an evaluation for a fee.
The museum’s gift shop will be open and is stocked with great holiday stamp related gifts for both collectors and non-collectors.
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Adults $8, Seniors $5, Children (5-16) $3
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241 Wellesley St., Weston, MA, 02493 map
Phone: 617-784-5838
On the campus of Regis College
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- Bring addresses of friends, have you Santa list ready.
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