At any time when we write in regards to the Submit Workplace Museum in Paris, we’re fairly positive that lots of people roll their eyes and suppose that it’s nerdy and actually not value their time. And so, we do our greatest to inform you all that in the event you’re on the lookout for one thing out of the unusual and truly fascinating, the Submit Workplace Museum is admittedly actually value a go to (take a look at our article right here), plus, it’s by no means removed from our accommodations!
Whereas the brand new short-term exhibition doesn’t have the snappiest title – De l’acier au papier. Regards sur le timbre gravé – it does embrace many nice photographs from Sophie Brändström documenting the almost-lost artwork of how stamps begin as steel engravings, and the way they finally change into stamps, a course of that entails many technical and inventive challenges…
You may suppose that stamps are simply printed, bought, and that’s it, however there’s really much more that goes into making a phenomenal stamp. Every one is virtually a miniature murals, and solely three international locations on the planet proceed to make them from copperplate engravings – China, Czechoslovakia and… France.
Photographer Sophie Brändström spent a number of months following the method of how a stamp is created in France:
— Design, with the engravers, artists and illustrators
— Manufacture, with grasp printers and technical operators, and
— Supply of the stamps, with collectors and philatelists.
Every of those levels kinds a piece of the exhibition, with an extra last half devoted to the preservation and promotion of this type of creation, and occasions and workshops based mostly on the exhibition are being organised – extra data (in French) right here.
The museum presently has a second short-term exhibition nonetheless operating – S’affranchir – The Weight of Phrases by Véronique Béland, till twenty seventh April 2026 – and (sorry to insist, however) the everlasting assortment is admittedly wonderful too, and lately modernised so it’s fairly a contemporary expertise the place the entire household will discover one thing of curiosity.
With the brand new short-term exhibition, the opposite short-term exhibition nonetheless in place, and an awesome everlasting assortment, now’s the proper time to find the Submit Workplace Museum near our accommodations!
The photograph exhibition From Metal to Paper – The World of Engraved Stamps by Sophie Brändström is on the Submit Workplace Museum (right here) till twelfth October 2026
Open each day besides Tuesdays from 11am-6pm. Closed twenty fifth December, 1st January and 1st Could. Early closing at 4pm on twenty fourth & thirty first December
Admission: 11€ / 6€
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