Katara's postage stamp exhibition will be open to visitors on Wednesday

The World Cup Postage Stamp Exhibition is one of the events organised by Katara in conjunction with the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. The exhibition will be open to visitors on Wednesday, at the Arab Postal Stamp Museum in Building No. 22 of the Cultural Village Foundation - Katara. It includes more than 340 stamp panels from all over the world, including 280 panels about the FIFA World Cup tournaments from its first edition held in 1930 in Uruguay until the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. 

The World Cup Postage Stamp Exhibition also includes a distinguished and rare collection of World Cup holdings, including souvenirs that are displayed for the first time with the participation of amateurs from Qatar, Italy and Brazil.

Director of the Qatar Club for Amateur Stamps and Coins Hussein Rajab Al Ismail said that the exhibition includes stamps of the World Cup football tournaments, issued since 1930 until now, in addition to a wide range of sports collectibles for famous players and referees which include original shirts, cups, balls, medals, commemorative figures and pictures from the various FIFA World Cup tournaments since the first edition. The exhibition also sees the participation of a Brazilian and an Italian amateur, and two Qatari amateurs, in addition to the collections of the Club and the Arab Postal Stamp Museum. Moreover, a large collection of old match tickets and letters from players to their fans has also been included. There is also a special pavilion for the stamps issued by Qatar Post for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar.

The exhibition has been organised with the aim of introducing the fans and visitors to the history of the World Cup tournaments from its first edition until the current edition hosted by the State of Qatar, which have been documented through stamps.