Arts & CultureSunday, November 15

Routes to a Nation Gallery Tour

Name: Routes to a Nation Gallery Tour
Start: 2026-11-15T18:30:00.000Z
End: 2026-11-15T19:15:00.000Z
Location: National Postal Museum

Sunday, November 15 · 1:30-2:15 p.m. · National Postal Museum

1:30-2:15 p.m.

When: Sunday, November 15 · 1:30-2:15 p.m.
Where: National Postal Museum2 Massachusetts Ave Ne · Washington, DC · 20002

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Venue: Postal Museum Event Location: Historic Lobby Cost: Free Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible

How did a collection of scattered colonies become a nation? Join one of the National Postal Museum's curators for a ga llery tour exploring the communication networks that connected Americans during the colonial period and early republic. Learn about Be njamin Franklin's nearly forty-year postal career; how American re volutionaries challenged the royal postal system and established their own; and how merchants used transatlantic correspondence to participate in global commerce. Based on the new NPM book, Routes to a Na tion, recently published by Smithsonian Books, this interactive tour h ighlights objects that reveal how mail shaped commerce, government, cu lture, and national identity.

This 45-minute guided tour includes time for questions and discussion. Presenters: Lyn n Heidelbaugh, Alison Bazylinski, Daniel Piazza (rotating).

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