During his years in Europe, he shipped stamps he had collected to Sister Fidelma Conway, CSJ, a colleague at Regis College, for safe keeping.

[2] The museum now contains over two million items, ranging from postage stamps, to postal history, to artifacts of communications through the mails.

[4] The museum's principal mission is to engage and teach diversity, history, and geography through philatelic exhibits, a research library, resource center, educational programming and community outreach.

In a word, these vignettes give a vivid picture of the world, its occupants and their multifarious endeavors.The museum is supported by a membership program, grants, annual donations, admission and research fees, retail sales, and an endowment.

The research library is open by appointment and houses an extensive international collection of philatelic literature, including thousands of books, catalogs, audiovisual media, and periodicals relating to stamps and postal history, as well as the history of philately and related subjects.