Welcome to the AEPM

An international printing heritage network

The AEPM shares knowledge, experience, initiatives, and resources in all fields of the graphic arts as they have been practised from the time of Gutenberg until the present day. Read more

Latest news

August 30, 2024 // AEPM webmaster

Update on the former Type Archive’s Monotype and Stephenson Blake collections

The Science Museum Group has completed a major project to relocate the Monotype Collection, which illustrates the mechanical typesetting method that dominated the world in the twentieth century. The Monotype Collection contains more than two million individual items, including a comprehensive archive, around a hundred machines, patterns and matrices, and over four thousand drawers of

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August 12, 2024 // AEPM webmaster

Open call for TYPA residencies

July 30, 2024 // AEPM webmaster

Norwich Printing Museum study days

A brief history of printing and related museums worldwide

in the form of a timeline of the foundation dates of over three hundred printing and graphic heritage organisations from 1843 to the present day

Museum finder

Printing and related museums in Europe and worldwide

Want to find a printing museum or other printing heritage organisation near you, or to visit when travelling? Try our Museum Finder

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Publications & conference proceedings

A variety of publications about printing and graphic heritage including profiles of printing museums, a selection of papers from previous AEPM conferences and a brief history of printing and related museums in the form of a timeline of the foundation dates of nearly two hundred printing and graphic heritage organisations worldwide.