Museums of Typography

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Johannes Gutenburg, musuem in Mainz, Germany (In German)
- Address and hours:
  Liebfrauenplatz 5 (am Dom), 6500 Mainz
  Phone: +49 (0)6131 - 122640 or 122644
  Tuesday to Saturday from 10.00 to 18.00. Sunday 10.00 to 13.00
  Closed holidays, January, Christmas Day, and Easter Sunday
- Comments by Karel van der Waarde: "Certainly worth a long visit, (one full day). The Dom next to it is worth a visit as well.
- Comments by martin Schr"oder: "Mainz is a _must_. 1.5 Gutenberg bibles and _many_ old books. But they are a bit thin on printing technology.
Klingspor Museum in Offenbach
- Address: Herrnstrasse 80, 6050 Offenbach am Main
- Comments by Karel van der Waarde: A major collection of book and writing and printing materials. The basis in 1953 was the library of the Klingspor foundry. Other specialities are calligraphy, book illustrations, the work of Rudolf Koch, Eckmann, Peter Behrens. Basically they have far to much to show everything, and it depends a bit on the exhibition in the main area. However, the standard collection upstairs is worth a visit.

Plantin Moretus Museum in Antwerp
- Address:
  Vrijdagmarkt 22
  tel: 03/232.02.94 - 03/232.24.55, fax: 03/226.25.16
- WWW information in English or in Dutch. It also has Visitor Information in Dutch, French, German and English (as well as some lovely images of the interior).

Meermanno-Westreenianum museum in The Hague, Amsterdam (In Dutch):
A hundred highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
- Excerpted from the "Welcome" -- "In 1994 A Hundred Highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek was published. In this book a selection of manuscripts, printed works, book bindings, and specimens from the paper history collection in the Department of Special Collections is presented with explanatory notes, mainly provided by staff of the Department.
  "Members of the staff of the Library Research Department have adapted the book for digital distribution. The result may be seen on your screen: a digital book of plates with comments.
  "Just like the version of the Highlights published in book form, the digital Highlights can be browsed and provide an extensive introduction and index. Moreover, the electronic presentation offers you the opportunity of joining a number of selected guided tours. If you are interested in the ways the Library's treasures on paper or parchment were made, there are tours, for instance, of miniatures in medieval manuscripts, modern typography, bookbindings and paper making. For those interested in the contents of these works of art, there are tours of literary, religious, historical, art historical and other subjects.
  "The copyright of this edition is deposited at Waanders Uitgevers and the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. "

Musée de l'Imprimerie et de la Banque in Lyon
- Address and hours:
  3, rue de la Poulaillerie, 69002 Lyon
  Tel : (33) 78.37.65.98
  Fax : (33) 78.38.25.95
- URL: http://www.bm-lyon.fr/musee/imprimerie.htm in French

A museum dedicated to Giambattista Bodoni in Parma
> Biblioteca Angelica, a public library Roma
- Address and hours:
- Comments by Klaus E. Werner
  In Italy there are _e_a_s_i_ly_ accessible (identity card). Right around my corner there is such a library (Biblioteca Angelica, Roma) that possesses-- among other things -- 1.100 incunaboli (books before 1500), 20.000 books of the 16th century, 519 books of Bodoni etc. You just go there, show your passport at the entrance and they will give you what you want. Even the editions of Aldus Manutius (Hyperotnomachia Poliphili) and Nikolaus Jenson (Plinius' Naturalis Historia).

Basel, Switzerland has a nice little museum.
- Address and hours:
- Comments: by Bruno Maag: It is more like an old papermill - fully working - than a museum about type. It does workshops in papermaking, hand setting and printing. It is also gorgeously located on the river Rhein with a little cafe in front of it. So, if you're there in the Summer it is an ideal place to unwind.

The St Brides Library, London, England
- Address and hours:
  just off Fleet Street in London,
- Comments by Erica Matlow: An excellant resource for anything to do with printing or typography.

Cary Library

Providence Public Library, special collection: Daniel Berkeley Updike

Stanford University Library

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