The Postal Museum

Lovely little museum. Me and my son (6 years) enjoyed the royal mail train ride. Lots of interactive fun things for kids. Recommended

A very interesting museum which feels you and lets you experience the royal mails underground postal system and how mail was and still is delivered, sorted and sent around London. You can buy tickets online but also in the museum it’s self which is a couple pounds more. Even better it’s an annual ticket so you can visit whenever you want however if you want to go on the train again you have to pay £6. I wouldn’t recommend taking babies on the train or if your claustrophobic as it’s quite tight going through the tunnels. It’s a really fun experience going through the tunnels under central London and seeing how they sorted the 4 million letters a day. Once you finish On the train, you walk down the road to the next part of the museum where you can find lots of information about delivering mail. Lots of the museum is interactive too which is great. Overall a good experience and I would recommend but I can say I would skip the cafe, the foods not to bad but it’s quite overpriced.

The overall experience was great. We waited for 10 - 15 minutes to get on the train tour. The tour was really amazing, and they had an incredible experience as they explained how workers use the train and how many letters were processed each day. I highly recommend this to anyone who loves trains or if you just looking for a day out with the kids.

The only criticism was that the tickets were quite expensive (£27 for an adult and child).

We manage to come even Train strike and it was not that busy.
As family of 3, we had a great time here!
Lots of fun and activities to play and touch around. Enlightening about how the Post started. First should ride the underground, then to the exhibits.

Great museum we had a fantastic time. The underground train was brilliant. You pay once and can go again for a year for free. The staff were so helpful, friendly and welcoming. You would be making a great choice to visit.

Excellent museum and great train ride which used to be the mail train to Mount Pleasant. Very interesting visit showing post through the years, including through the war. I was a bit worried about the train as other reviews said it was daunting and cramped. It is small but I felt comfortable in it and had plenty of head room and leg room. I am 5ft 6. I took my niece and nephew aged 11 and 13 and they really enjoyed all the interactive activities in the museum. We grabbed a meal deal from Tesco on route and ate it in their outside picnic area as I felt prices for sandwiches were a little pricey but then again it is London so was expected hence the pack lunches.

We went on the evening tunnel walk and it was great. The guides had loads of interesting facts about the rail Mail history and the walk along the tunnels was creepy and fun. It would be amazing if the guides were ex postal workers! I'll be back for the daytime tour and train ride.

My recent visit was during the 151 years of the British Postcard Exhibition.

A very nice, but small museum housing various collections of Postal History from uniforms and vehicles to Britain's famous curbside Postboxes. Interactive activities for children and a small cinema/theatre showing postal and telecommunications programs from years gone bye. Across the road is the entrance the Mount Pleasant Mail Rail System and exhibition well worth the visit, this is what your ticket mainly covers. Both parts of the museum have a decent shop with Post & Go Stamps kiosks, there is even a special postbox for the postal museums own postmark.