History of the museum

The origin of the museum dates back to an exhibition on the history of the post in Andorra that was inaugurated in 1982, after which it was considered appropriate to have the subject exhibited on a permanent basis. A commission formed by representatives of the Government and the Spanish and French mail services designed the first museum, which was located at the head of the Casa de la Vall building, the seat of the Andorran parliament. This small museum explained the system for manufacturing stamps together with Andorran stamps issued since 1860 and other materials present in the images that were engraved on the stamps. There was also a small room dedicated to numismatics, where a collection of coins issued by the episcopal vegueria (the office of the representative of the bishop of La Seu d’Urgell) was exhibited. The first Postal Museum was dismantled in 1991 following the work undertaken for the drafting of the Constitution of the Principality of Andorra, and it reopened in the Era del Raser building in Ordino in 1998.

In 2008, mail in Andorra ceased to be free of charge as had traditionally been the case.

Since 2017 the Postal Museum of Andorra is no longer on two floors, and now it only occupies the upper floor with the lower floor now used for temporary exhibitions.

The transformation from a physical to a digital museum began in 2022 with the total digitalization of the philatelic collection and the migration of all the elements present in the physical museum to the website  www.museupostal.ad.

December 29, 2023 was the last day that the physical space of the Postal Museum of Andorra could be visited and it became completely digital.