Join members of our experience and engagement teams in a postcard extravaganza!

Did you know that you can send special postcards from the postbox in the Reading Room to anywhere in the world for free? We’ve commissioned four artists to design four new postcards, each responding to the question: “What does health mean to you?”

To mark the launch of our new postcards, we're taking over the Reading Room with a range of activities that celebrate and explore stamps and postcards from our collections.

Drop by the Reading Room and you can have a go at:

 Making a new postcard out of old ones
 Writing your own poetry on a postcard
 Joining a postage-stamp treasure hunt
 Creating your own blackout poem using copies of postcards from our collection.
Next door in the Viewing Room there will be a display of postcards and stamps from our collection to discover and learn more about.

A chill-out space will be available – just ask staff for more details.