ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Turner Collection of Newspaper Tax Stamps

Okay kiddo, do you know what a museum is? It's a place where people keep things that are old, important or pretty, and they show them to other people.

The Turner Collection of Newspaper Tax Stamps is a collection of very old stamps that were used a long time ago. Stamps are little pieces of paper that have a special picture on them, and they are used to show that you paid money for something.

Back in the old days, people had to pay a tax just to read the news in the newspaper. They had to buy a special stamp and stick it on their paper to show that they paid the tax. These tax stamps have different pictures on them, like symbols of the United States or pictures of important people.

The Turner Collection has a lot of different tax stamps from a long time ago, and they are all very special because they show what life was like in the past. When you look at them, you can learn about history and how things used to be different.

So, the Turner Collection of Newspaper Tax Stamps is a bunch of old stamps that people used to buy to read the news, and it's kept in a special place called a museum so that people can learn about history.