Museum Plantin-Moretus
I said in my post, Letterpress Rules OK, that there weren’t that many printing museums in the world.
But in Antwerp, there is the Museum Plantin-Moretus.
Museum Plantin-Moretus
The actual museum and contents are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
They have a large collection of machines, type and all the other things that proper printing entails. For example, they explain how printers in the 16th and 17th centuries actually made the movable type.
Museum Plantin-Moretus - Printing Machine
Note the virtually all wooden construction.
Museum Plantin-Moretus - More Printing Machines
There were six machines in the room. They were displayed down one wall with desks for the compositors on the other side of the room.
The building itself is immaculate with a vast collection of old books, maps and paintings, including a Gutenburg Bible and several portraits by Rubens.
Museum Plantin-Moretus - The Garden
It is a museum that is well worth a visit. Allow more time than we did, as the staff were rather hasty in chucking us out.
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