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 re-enactment info via Picture Gallery or Home Page.

List of Museum Documents

INCLUDING PICTORIAL LEAFLETS

Click these links for the "web browser" versions (recommended) or Word Documents.

The HTML versions have links to full-screen pictures, where available, with added descriptions of what's in the picture.

Picture File (2001)

File pictures of the collection: machines, artefacts, packaging, documents. Artists using our Access Studio.

web version (html) (6 enlargements)

word.doc version [671 k]

Appendix W: April 2002

Summary of the Museum's collection (taken from website files): pictures added

web version (html)

NO WORD.DOC VERSION

Appendix M: Oct 2002

Summary of the Museum's aims, services, values and audiences, Why is our artefact collection so unique?

Descriptive document, pictures added later.

web version (html)

word.doc version [29 k] no pictures

Leaflet, Mar 2003

The Museum's collections, programs and aspirations described. An expectation of opening soon.

Descriptive document, pictures added later.

web version (html) (3 enlargements)

word.doc version [54 k] no pictures

Pictorial May 2003

Our new building being fitted out.

A look at some machines and artefacts.

web version (html) (7 enlargements)

word.doc version[ 1143 k ]

Pictorial June 2003

Our reference library. Linotype under repair. Artefacts. Goods under threat.

web version (html) (8 enlargements)

word,doc version [ 2348 k ]

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