Melbourne Museum of Printing
Australia's working and teaching museum of typography and printing located at Footscray, Victoria. Specialising in retention of traditional printing, both the equipment and the knowledge.
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View or print-out our photography. See our collections, read about our activities and our development and the work of those who have used our ACCESS STUDIO.

NOTE: ALL TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS ARE COPYRIGHT. All intending users please see our copyright notice page.

 

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MELBOURNE MUSEUM OF PRINTING

 

WOULD YOU LIKE TO STUDY OUR WEBSITE?

Perhaps read through these documents and pictures, click on the enlargements. THEN if you navigate to our HOME PAGE (see top) you may see or read about our hundreds of machines, our thousands of artefacts : Our classes, access studios, research and public programs : Participatory experience for booklovers and antiquarians : How our typefoundry supports letterpress worldwide.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO VISIT OUR FULLY FUNCTIONAL
NEWSPAPER COMPOSING ROOM?

Read about our (intended) re-enactment of a newspaper composing room with dozens of Linotypes plus Ludlow, Monotype and hand setting.

Be part of the enthusiastic action as we typeset and print a real letterpress broadsheet! [Possibly late 2005.]

Access via Re-enactment Gallery (below) or Home Page.

 

List of Picture Galleries

Click the links for these "web browser" galleries. They have links to full-screen pictures, where available, with added descriptions of what's in the picture.


ENGRAVINGS GALLERY

Engraved Blocks in the Museum's Archives

See various kinds of engraved block. Advertisements, people and places, business needs, pure art. Many businesses represented have long since become history.

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DOCUMENTS GALLERY

Documents in the Museum's Archives

See the main kinds of documents, related to the work of printers. Imagine the historical information on design, the business of printing and the businesses for whom these printers printed.

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RE-ENACTMENT GALLERY

Re-enactment of a major Composing Room

See some of the machines that will be used in our intended re-enactments. Just picture yourself helping to compose and print our event newspaper.

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GALLERY OF TYPESETTINGS

Saved Typesettings in Our Archives

See a few of our thousands of printing jobs still "set-up" in metal types, decades after being printed.

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GALLERY OF FOUNTS

Founts of Type and Matrices

Founts of movable type, founts of matrices to produce movable type or for use in typesetting machines.

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GALLERY OF STEREOTYPES

Stereotypes in Our Archives

See a few of our Stereotypes: typesettings and engravings duplicated for distribution to many printers, or to achieve run volumes.

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NEWPORT STORE IN JEOPARDY

This Museum's Largest Store - may be destroyed

When we closed in 1999, more than half the Museum's equipment and other materials were moved into the ex-railway workshops in Newport. Now the other occupants need that space and, with the blessing of the government authority concerned, are going to destroy it!

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Further galleries being prepared.

HAVE YOU SEEN ALL OUR DOWNLOADABLE DOCUMENTS?

Some more pictures in the documents.

watch this space !

 


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