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Well okay, he hasn't actually opened a postal museum, that would be taking his interest in the postal service to an extreme.
Terry has, however, just opened a new exhibition celebrating the Victorian age of invention at Bath's (UK) Postal Museum, Northgate Street, an establishment Mr. Pratchett is a patron of.
The main theme of the exhibition is to plot the development of communication during the Victorian era, the penny post, post boxes, and transportation of the mail. It also commemorates Bath's role in the creation of the postal service as we know it today, a subject followed closely by Terry when creating his Discworld novel Going Postal.
Terry Pratchett said:
"This has been a wonderful exhibition and I am pleased to be here to look around.
"The Victorian period was such a great age of inventions and they were all inventions which we could get our heads around - they were easy to understand unlike today's inventions."
He also said: "I just think it is such a great museum."
The exhibition is open until September 2008 and will give Discworld fans a wonderful insight into the thought processes behind the creation of Going Postal, and other lesser mortals an amazing view of past technology and its development.
Jonathan Malory
Quotes from : The Bath Chronical
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