![]() It was founded in the wake of the Great Exhibition of 1851. The world’s largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts, and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects including very extensive collections of the products of printing and graphic design. Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London, United Kingdom. It was the first time that a museum had been dedicated exclusively to exhibiting books in their own right rather than as a means of illustrating other subjects, the aim being to show how the book had evolved over the centuries, how it was designed, illustrated, printed and bound, and how the book and Gutenberg’s revolutionary printing process had contributed to the advancement of Western civilization.In line with the nature of its collections, the Museum Meermanno was international and not a museum of Dutch printing or of the Dutch book, the historiography of which would not be seriously undertaken until the closing decades of the twentieth century. It was born of a collector’s desire to share his collection and to assure its continued existence and was the brainchild of the Baron Willem Van Westreenen de Tiellandt (1783-1848) a rich bibliophile who, having no heirs, bequeathed his collection of 15,000 rare books to the Dutch State on condition that it be used to found a public museum to be installed in his mansion house which he also left to the State. One of the very first museums in Europe to be dedicated specifically to printing heritage. ![]() Meermanno Museum, The Hague, Netherlands. It was closed sometime before the Second World War, to reappear again in 1963 in the form of the Museo Bodoniano which, larger than its predecessor, brought together all the typographical material, archives and printed works of Bodoni. ![]() Gallery reserved for the display of the tools and typographical punches of Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813). Stanza dei punzoni, Biblioteca Palatina, Parma, Italy. Links to the websites of many of the museums in operation today can be found in our Links section or by using our interactive Museum finder world map of printing museums. ![]() If you wish the foundation date of your museum to be included in this list, or if you have any information about museums past or present which are not currently included, we would be very happy to hear from you.įor all information, queries, corrections or additions please contact us here. The list is intended as a research tool for anyone interested in how the institutions of printing heritage have developed since the middle of the nineteenth century. Closure date are given when known (which is not often). Many of them are still in existence today, sometimes after one or more changes of name or location. The following is a constantly growing list of the foundation dates of printing, book, paper and related museums. Foundation dates of museums in the fields of printing and graphic communication Publications An ongoing timeline of printing and related museumsĪ brief history of printing and related museums worldwide in the form of a timeline of the foundation dates of nearly two hundred printing and graphic heritage organisations.
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