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Of printing, books, banknotes and toilet paper
The origins of over 250 printing and related museums The AEPM's ongoing timeline of printing museums now lists the foundation dates of over 250 museums and related organisations in the field of graphic heritage. It is intended as a research tool for anyone interested in how the institutions of printing heritage have developed since the…
Discover the Museum of Letters (Buchstabenmuseum) in Berlin
New on the AEPM's interactive Museum finder map of printing and related museums in Europe and worldwide. The Buchstabenmuseum—everyday life writ large! Graphic heritage comes in all shapes and sizes. Rather like letters. And if you like your letters large and flashy (sometimes literally) the Buchstabenmuseum in Berlin is for you, for it's a museum…
So, what do you know about Czech typography?
Jaroslav Benda 1882–1970: typographic designs and letterforms So much twentieth century printing history remains to be written. So it is always encouraging to hear of initiatives to fill in the innumerable blanks—especially when they concern the graphic heritage of countries which, to put it politely, are not over-represented in mainstream European histories of printing and…
Museum of Typography (Chania) in Council of Europe cultural route
Recent publication about European Industrial Heritage Routes (ERIH) The Greek Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has issued a brochure presenting the various Council of Europe cultural routes involving Greece. One of these routes, the European Industrial Heritage Route (ERIH) crosses Crete and is represented by the Giannis and Eleni…
Petition to save the paper collection of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
[The Hague, Netherlands] Save the paper collection of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek Petition launched by Daniel Bellingradt and addressed to the Executive Board and Governing Board of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. In early 2020, the management of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Den Haag) made the decision that its famous paper historical collection will no longer be a 'core…
AEPM member TYPA wins the ILUCIDARE special prize for heritage-led innovation
TYPA is joint winner of the ILUCIDARE Special Prizes 2020 The winners of the ILUCIDARE Special Prizes 2020 have just been announced during a virtual gathering that connected culture and heritage professionals, policy makers, (young) entrepreneurs, enthusiasts, volunteers and supporters from across Europe and beyond. Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education…
The St Bride Printing Library — 125 years young!
St Bride Printing Library Crowdfunding Campaign The St Bride Library—a unique printing heritage resource—is celebrating its 125th anniversary on 20 November 2020. To coincide with this, it is running a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for the Library and fund a year of special events and library projects. Any donations received will go towards funding…
A virtual visite to the AMI – on paper!
Just out! The catalogue of the Atelier-musée de l'imprimerie de Malesherbes Catalogue? Album? Celebration? It's hard to decide what to call this superb publication because it's all three at the same time. It's a celebration because it has been published to coincide with the anniversary of the impressive printing museum created by Chantal and Jean-Paul…
The woodblock webinar
Get inspired by the 14,000 woodblocks of the Officina Plantiniana 7 December 2020 In this webinar we will present the process and results of the woodblock project at the Plantin-Moretus Museum (2019-2020). Invited speakers will also give insight into specific research topics dealing with woodblocks. The webinar intends to stimulate interest and research in woodblock…
A century of wonder. Knowledge in the 16th century
[Exhibition: Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, Belgium] 09 October 2020 - 10 January 2021 A new world In 2020, it will be 500 years since Christophe Plantin's birth. That other famous Christophe(r), known by Columbus, had just discovered the 'New World' only thirty years earlier. That world may have been new to the explorers, but it was…
The Huis van het boek new exhibition
An exhibition 'Full of stories' Huis van het boek (House of the book) Prinsessegracht 30 The Hague, The Netherlands 10 October 2020 - 06 March 2021 For the new autumn exhibition Full of Stories the Huis van het boek is showing many masterpieces from its collections. This time the Museum is looking at its exceptional…
Susan Shaw, founder of The Type Archive (London) dies aged 87
We learned with great sadness of the death this week of Susan Shaw, publisher and indefatigable founder and defender of the Type Museum which she established in Stockwell, London in 1992. Over the years the Type Museum, now called The Type Archive, amassed a fabulous collection of historical type-making materials – punches, matrices, machines and…
Tipografia Grifani Donati 1799
[Città di Castello, Perugia, Italy] History of the Tipografia Grifani Donati 1799 heritage workshop In the 15th century, at the time of the Renaissance, Italy was thriving. So, hardly surprisingly, it was here that the new invention by Johannes Gutenberg in Germany, namely the technique of movable type printing first became widespread. In fact, the…
Closure of the International Exlibris Center
The activities of the International Exlibris Center have been discontinued since November 2019 On the retirement of the collections manager of the International Exlibris Center in November 2019, the City of Sint-Niklaas in Belgium has decided not to renew the appointment. As a result, the museum activity of the International Exlibris Center has been discontinued.…
Alone in the printing museum. Analog visitors and digital users in times of Coronavirus
Dr. Susanne Richter, Museum of Printing Art Leipzig Museums in Leipzig have been closed since March 14, 2020, and the Museum of Printing Art has become very quiet, both its collections and the current exhibition The Eye of the Photographer. Sometimes it takes a crisis for things to change. In recent weeks Leipzig museums have…
Digital Typography Library
A wealth of information on the history and techniques of typography Jacques André, noted specialist and author of numerous books and articles on traditional and digital typography, has just updated his Digital Typography Library, which offers a wide range of online bibliographic sources useful for all those who are interested in the history of typography.…
Letterform Archive announces free online access to the entire run of Emigre magazine
An essential source for understanding typography in the age of the personal computer Earlier this month the Letterform Archive announced free online access to the full series of Emigre, the epoch-making magazine which was published between 1984 and 2005 by the Emigre digital type foundry. This invaluable archival source for anyone interested in typography in…
Klingspor Museum – the missing exhibition
Verily it is heavenly anticipation. Book and written art on texts by Friedrich Hölderlin The Klingspor Museum was to be one of the hosts of the 2020 Aepm annual conference. But, as you can imagine, the conference has been cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak and the Museum is closed to the public until further…
Depressed by lockdown? Let yourself be impressed by Plantin!
The Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp has announced that it will be closed until further notice because of the coronavirus outbreak. But if you are feeling at something of a loose end during lockdown you might like to explore and play with the the Museum's fabulous collection of 14,000 woodcuts (blocks and impressions) which it has…
Good news about Matthew Boulton’s Baskerville family bible
A message from the Centre for Printing History and Culture Thanks to the remarkable support of people in Birmingham, Britain and overseas, Matthew Boulton’s Baskerville family Bible, due to be auctioned by the Assay Office on 26 March 2020, was secured by the Consortium of The Baskerville Society, Centre for Printing History & Culture (Birmingham…