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

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December 2, 2024 // AEPM webmaster

The Gutenberg Museum’s Bibles online

The Gutenberg-Museum in Mainz, the birthplace of Johannes Gutenberg, is one of the most important places for collecting and preserving Gutenberg’s invention as well as for communicating the history of books, printing and writing. Its unique collection comprises around 500,000 objects from the fields of books, writing and the art of printing and shows their

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October 2, 2024 // AEPM webmaster

Upcoming events at the St Bride Foundation

October 1, 2024 // AEPM webmaster

Baskerville punches website launch

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

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.