Celebrate the Olympics With Stamps - Free Family Day
| Venue: | Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History |
| Hours: | 9:00 am - 5:00 pm |
| Ages: | Kids, Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | Free |
| Category: | Arts & Crafts |
Will you been watching all the upcoming Olympic events but disappointed you could not be in Rio to witness all the action first hand?
Do you want to test your knowledge about the 26 different sports competitions and 300 events?
Interested in knowing how countries around the world have honored the games, past and present, on their postage?
The Spellman Museum is holding a free admission Family Day on July 15 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm with many activities for both children and adults.
There will be arts and crafts activities using stamps celebrating the Olympics, stamp hunts for Olympic stamp prizes in the main gallery, creating Olympic stamps and mosaics and making a free collection of Olympics stamps to take home.
The free day is being sponsored by the Highland Street Foundation and is part of their summer long Free Fridays program.
In addition, several former Olympians have been invited to attend including Bill Beckland who won eight gold medals in rowing at the Melbourne Olympics and Bicyclist John Allis who competed in Mexico City and Munich.
On exhibit will be United States and worldwide postage stamps commemorating the Olympics from 1896 to the present.
The stamps will feature all the events from archery to wrestling and badminton to weightlifting.
See stamps issued at the famous 1936 Berlin Olympics as well as a set of Australian stamps that feature all that nation’s gold medal winners from the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Also on display is a sheet of U.S.
stamps issued in 1996 in Atlanta that has the autographs of eleven past Olympians (from 1936 to 2008) who visited the Museum four years ago.
In addition to showing the various sports, stamps that feature the Olympic flag, rings and torch, Baron Pierre Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympics, and envelopes issued on the first day of the contests from such venues as London in 1948, Mexico City in 1968 and Munich in 1972 are exhibited.
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