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The National Postal Museum (2 Massachusetts Ave NE) is hosting “PostSecret: The Power of a Postcard” through September 2016. The exhibition highlights PostSecret, an ongoing community mail art project that encourages people to mail homemade postcards with anonymous secrets to founder Frank Warren. Since 2004, Warren has collected the postcards, posted a weekly rotation of postcards on the PostSecret website and published six books of postcard collections.
It began when Warren handed out postcards to strangers less than a mile from the National Postal Museum and left them in public places—asking people to share a secret. He made two requests: The secret had to be absolutely true, and it had to be a secret never shared before. Now, more than a decade later, Warren has received more than 500,000 postcards, and the PostSecret blog has had more than 700 million visits.
The museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.(closed Dec. 25) and is directly across the street from Union Station on the north side of Massachusetts Ave.
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