The Type Archive (TA) has taken the decision to relinquish its current premises in Stockwell, South London The Type Archive holds the National Typefounding Collection, broadly comprising; 1. the typefounding materials of the Sheffield typefounders, Stephenson Blake, a collection dating from the 16th century; 2. the hot-metal archive and plant of the Monotype Corporation; and…
The National Museum of Playing Cards (Belgium) is looking for a new home for 34 machines As part of work that Museums Turnhout has undertaken on its inventory an evaluation process has been carried out over the past six months concerning 58 historical items of printing equipment currently stored in the National Museum of Playing…
Museo de la Imprenta y de las artes graficas de Valencia On May 28th, the Senate of the Valencia’s Printing Museum celebrated its Chapter XX, appointing its new Senators, all of them linked to the graphic arts, books and book publishing. It is an honour for us to welcome these new members in our team.…
Renovated gallery now open for New impressions exhibit The gallery has undergone a much-needed renovation! We removed a ton of metal pipes and hangers from the ceiling, cleaned the industrial grime and painted it. The wooden deck was removed and we filled the trough that was in the floor and levelled. We will give the…
Press Museum Fjeld-Ljom becomes the complete predigital newspaper house By Jan Erik Øvergård Press Museum Fjeld-Ljom, Røros, Norway The purpose of inventing printing was to more easily distribute information, faith, opinion – in one word: content. We admire and are impressed by printing techniques, the beauty of letters, fonts and pleasant layout. In its way…
From Colin Steele, Emeritus Fellow, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Australia I visited the Museum of the Book and Printing of Ukraine in 2015, a year after Russia began waging its war in eastern Ukraine. I was in the country to interview political elites and collect survey data measuring the impact of…
International Newspaper Museum, Aachen Exhibition 12.03.2022 – 26.06.2022 For a long time, the city of Liège had been marked by decline. Structural change and mismanagement had left the Walloon metropolis visibly decaying. In recent years, however, the picture began to change. Liège is undergoing a very dynamic and exciting modernisation process. A symbol of this…
These days we all share feelings of sorrow and pain with the Ukrainian people. But it is also Europe that is realising the danger of losing the right to live in peace. The French designer Gerard Paris-Clavel is known for his sharp graphic comments. The poster shown here has, over the years, become one of…
New exhibition at the Poster House, New York, February 25–August 21, 2022 In the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution and subsequent civil war in Russia, a group of young, talented artists emerged, ready to contribute to and invent a new Soviet culture. As the government embrace cinema as the best means of propaganda, these designers…
The theme of the conference is… Why do we make printing museums? It is being hosted this year by the fabulous Atelier-Musée de l’Imprimerie in Malesherbes (France), one of the newest, largest and most impressive printing museums in Europe. Its fascinating mix of machines, processes and printed products is not to be missed on any…
The Lithography Museum in Huddinge (Sweden) will reopen on the 20th February with an exhibition of lithographs, drawings and paintings by Yvonne Jeppsson. Jeppsson lives and works in Stockholm/Småland and is an active member of the Litografiska Museet. She was educated at the Stockholm Academy of Fine Arts 1980-86, where she specialised in painting. For…
Sarah & Eleanor Hewitt: Designing a Modern Museum Cooper Hewitt Museum, until October 10 2022 Sarah & Eleanor Hewitt: Designing a Modern Museum chronicles the colorful lives and contributions of the dynamic sisters and explores how they created The Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration. Through archival photography and documents, personal drawings and…
Saturday 22nd January 2022, a day we will always remember, the day fire ripped through the visitor centre and staff could only stand and watch. It has been a challenging week for everyone at Frogmore Paper Mill following the fire on our site last weekend. Our staff and volunteers have been hard at work assessing…
Following a fire on 22 January 2022, Frogmore Paper Mill will be closed to visitors until further notice. Nobody was injured during the fire, but there has been extensive damage to the visitor centre. The Mill is in the process of assessing the damage to the site and to its collection, and is hopeful that…
As a result of the partnership with the National Library of Armenia and Google Cultural Institute the first online collection of the Printing Museum of Armenia has been available on Google Arts & Culture since June 2021. The exceptional exhibition intends to bring the attention of the world to the history and path of Armenian…
CONNECT: Prints by members of The Boston Printmakers Every Saturday from January 8–29, 2022, the Museum of Printing, Haverhill, Mass., is presenting the work of The Boston Printmakers, with platemaking and printing demonstrations, artists and portfolio presentations, and hands-on workshops. Participants include: Joshua Brennan, Kate Conlon, Susan Denniston prints, Lesley Eliet, Stacy Friedman, Full Tilt Print Studio,…
The Typoteka website: almost 450 years of Polish typefaces From our Australian correspondent, Jürgen Wegner, editor of The shadowland newsletter, Eastwood, New South Wales, Australia. First published in The shadowland newsletter, n° 129, December 2021. A bonus when you are sent a variety of digital publications such as newsletters is that they allow you to…
With the postponement of the 2020 AEPM annual conference and its slightly experimental online edition organised by the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach in the Spring of this year we missed out on our usual news session, when museums share updates on their progress and latest projects. So to catch up we are very happy to…
An exhibition entitled Impressions has been inaugurated as part of the celebration of the 11th Gutenberg Literary Festival in El Puig de Santa María (Valencia), organized by the Town Council. With funding from the Printing and Graphic Arts Museum of Valencia.
Last December 18th, the President of the Association of Friends of the Museo de la Imprenta y de las artes graficas de Valencia, Mr. Enrique Fink Hurtado, received the “Gutenberg Award” distiction awarded by the El Puig de Santamaria City Council, delivered by the Mayor, Ms. Luisa Salvador Tomas, in recognition of his work in…
