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Melbourne Museum of Printing BOOKS : : PRINTING : : RELATED INDUSTRIES |
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Heritage Charity, registered at ACNC June 2000: Reg suspended during restructure : still a charity. |
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NOW-CLOSED SITE, GEELONG RD W.FOOTSCRAY [NOW OCCUPIED BY AN AMAZING ORGANISATION THAT PROVIDES TRAINING IN INDUSTRIAL SAFETY] POSTAL STILL P.O. BOX 555, W.FOOTSCRAY 3012 | ||
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WHAT DRIVES MMOP?
Heritage, tangible and intangible [ MOUSE OVER PIX ]
The crafts, technologies, working environments and business of printing and related industries.
Education and Research
Provision of a range of hands-on experiences enables designers, artists, writers and editors, printers, typesetters, librarians and enthusiasts to better understand what their computer is trying to do. They experience what labours went into the production of publications and other printed items in the past.
The "professional development" 8-hr workshop is popular. General audiences learn about past and present systems of printing in its wider sense. An academic one-semester unit has been suggested. The MMOP Archives will provide opportunities for research.
Art Production
After completing a hands-on workshop (or with other experience), some artists like to make use of the MMOP Access Studio to produce further hand-made printed items. These have included posters, social items, business items, and a few have produced substantial books, all by hand. Some items have done well in competitions.
Community Service
The "Museum Service Program" has assisted universities, museums and galleries with training, supply of hard-to-get materials and spare parts. When adequately financed, this program will be offered more widely and will be offered below cost where appropriate.
EVERY YOUNG PERSON WILL SEE PRINTING
The "Grade Six Experience" is planned to enable every child to attend the Museum and see the wide range of activities that are part of today's printing industry. If maintained over generations, this will result in the general population growing up with an understanding of the importance of these industries. Such a program could eventually be offered Australia-wide.
MMOP IN BLOGS
There are in fact numerous links to this Museum on the web. Many are from universities and historical organisations around the world, with a link and some commentary, sometimes just a few words. And there are also bloggers and flikr members who feature the Museum in some way.
In turn, MMOP links back to them. These are our "Referee Links"
Our "Referee Links" Page has lots of interesting links, from people who are interested in the graphic arts. So they are good reading.
LOTS MORE GREAT INPUT on the Referee Links page:
BLOGS show how visitors have appreciated their experience. All kinds of feedback . . . positive or negative, it's all good!!
Several talented people have made VIDEO CLIPS.
Flickr, Instagram and similar sites have been populated by lovers of MMOP.
Please see the Referee Page for the actual letters received.
<< ΕΝJOY ΟUR ILLUSTRATED TOPICS FIRSTLY: The 13 thumbnails in the red box
* The Vandercook press, coloured ink on rollers SECONDLY: Just below the MINI-MENU:
* VIEW OF THE BUILDING (2011) many pix of contents
<< ON THIS PAGE !
<< FIND THEM IN THE RED BOX
<< IN THE MAIN COLUMN, further down
Each goes to its own page of pix and explanation.
* Volunteers busy with some stores work
* A photoengraving, wood mounted
* Stereotype block and stereotype matrix
* Printer's Job Bag and document contents
* Awe-struck visitor admires old Stop-Cylinder press
* Enthusiastic student shows how to print
* The Albion press (1996 shot)
* Pages of Linotype lines and their proof
* Zoe composing her book with movable type
* Zoe's two-page sheet comes off the Albion
* Design student Olaf with his completed poster
* 2012 Type Campers and their handiwork
* 2 dozen ILLUSTRATED LEAFLETS
* The TWO DAYS Letterpress experience
* The SHOWROOM
* LETTERPRESS EXPLAINED
(Dozens of pix, taken to accompany an ABC Feature about MMOP)
* MMOP in the Media
(5 reports from early days)
| HOME PAGE | CONTACT | ex-VISITING | ex-PROGRAMS | COLLECTION | METAL TYPE |
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Reality check: MMOP is closed for now. But please keep in touch !
PLEASE READ THIS LONG, DETAILED PAGE.
IT TELLS SO MUCH ABOUT THE MUSEUM'S SUCCESSES AND FAILURES
AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES.
N.B.: Pages about activities are ARCHIVAL ONLY.
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Please email your thoughts to rebuild@mmop.org.au |
(Now working to recreate the Museum and its services)
Meantime This Website continues with lots of pix and info . . .
Coming Sometime to this website :
THE ONLINE MUSEUM OF PRINTING
Tech Help and Guidance would be appreciated:
email online@mmop.org.au to start a conversation.
Coming Later On : :
(IF RELEVANT PEOPLE ARE WILLING — we hope YOU are relevant !
Tell us who could be invited to help with ideas, skills, finance, storage? Please email.)
: : THE RECREATED MUSEUM OF PRINTING : :
WITH ALL ITS PROGRAMS
and hopefully in premises that can never be taken away !
Online pages will be under construction, and you can still see many of the old pages via our menu levels, with stories and hundreds of images of Museum objects and activities, both here and on well-known photo websites. More of them are from satisfied students and visitors than from our own resources.
Also (below) you could read the views of other museums and experts, customer "feedback" and press coverage in newspapers and trade magazines. These will increase as we receive or discover more items -- and as they rediscover MMOP. Check Back!
ARE YOU ONE WHO VISITED MMOP? DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN? WAS IT A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE FOR YOU . . . OR WAS IT NEW LEARNING?
Please email feedback@mmop.org.au with your experience and suggestions. Could we have done it better? Could we do better in future?
Many thousands of general public, and thousands of students who might consider a career in printing, attended M.M.O.P. in the 25 years MMOP was open.
Old Mick, the founder, is still with us.
As the type-founding trade was dying around 1975 Michael rebuilt it, (while working night shift at Telecom) keeping metal types available as "Australian Type Co". Will they again be available?
As more and more students and artists wanted to use type and presses, he began offering classes and around 1990 the emphasis changed to preservation and education, and the museum was formed.
Many with graphic interests (and many without) took part in our "hands-on" programs of typesetting and printing. Some returned to type-set, print and bind a hand-made edition of their own book. Others made cards and posters. They also had the chance to see and understand newer systems of printing. In future those newer systems will be part of this "hands on" education.
Also to come are some ancillary collections of related industries. The Australian Museum of Packaging will take its place, and examples are being collected of unique and day-to-day retail, wholesale and industrial packs of many materials and designs along with notes on their designers and producers.
Although the Museum's offerings were of benefit to "the industry", no help was offered to pay the rent or recruit and train some permanent staff. The Museum and its fabulous collection finally died in 2018 . . OR DID IT?
MMOP HAS BEEN RECOGNISED AROUND THE WORLD . . .
Industry Leaders, Museums, Academics, Civic LeadersSNIPPETS FROM OUR REFEREE PAGE
GO TO REFEREE PAGE FOR FULL LIST AND ACTUAL TEXTS :
[LINKS ARE BELOW]
''This is a Working Museum of Typography and Printing''
providing opportunities for printers, designers, historians, students,
booklovers/librarians, engineers, researchers, tourists and the naturally inquisitive.
ALSO PROVIDING INSIGHTS FOR THOSE WHO MIGHT CHOOSE A PRINT-RELATED CAREER
LEADING CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: [full statements, and more contributors, on Referee Page]
George Gearside JP, (then) President of the popular
Penrith Museum of Printing.
Nicole Wragg, Chair of Communication Design at Swinburne University.
John Magnik, (then) teacher and executive at the RMIT
printing school, Brunswick.
Dr. Derek Nuttall, (then) chairman of the
National Printing Heritage Trust (England) (in 2002)
John Griffiths, (then) Senior Curator, Media Technologies, The Science Museum, London, in 2002
Nigel Roche, principal of St Bride Printing Library,
London, in 2002. [Amazing place: see sbf.org.uk]
''From the description which I have seen, the collection which you have put
together is more comprehensive than anything we have here in the UK or indeed
in Europe. It offers the only possibility of reconstructing a proper printing
office for a newspaper or other substantial printing works, remaining in any
country.''
Stan Nelson, Printing and Typefounding expert, (then at) the Smithsonian Institution.
Patrick Thomas, graphic designer and lecturer of international repute. Patrick toured Australia in 2008 as AGDA International Speaker.
Patrick laments the loss of traditional printing knowledge and equipment in Spain, his adopted country and says it has left "a huge gap" in Spanish design education and culture.
In the picture, Museum Founder Michael Isaachsen receives a thank-you note from Patrick Thomas (right) who has just printed it by hand in the Museum's Access Studio.
Martin Stanley, lecturer in Printmaking at the National Art School in Sydney.
Martin escorted 25 students to Melbourne in 2008 and attended an all-day workshop at the Museum.
Schools and other visitors came from all states, and overseas, year after year.
Tobias Frere-Jones, renowned typographer and graphic designer, who visited MMOP.
Russell Kennedy, senior lecturer (then) at Monash University Graphic Design and a leader in international graphic design organisations.
Andrew Kean, design lecturer at Swinburne University.
Warren Taylor, graphic artist, teacher, curator of 'The Narrows' Art Gallery:
''The hand-made element is really interesting. There's so much printed matter that's mass-produced, it really stands out,'' he said.
Jim Reid, Secretary of the (then) Printing Division, AMWU (printing trade union) said:
''It is also relevant that the museum plans to recreate the workplace atmosphere, with not just a machine or two but the large numbers of machines and other items which would have been found in typical workplaces.''
Dr Stephen Foster, (then) General Manager(Collections),National Museum of Australia. in 2002
Ian Butterworth, Engineering Manager, (then at) Maribyrnong City Council:
''There were a number of impressive posters and other works actually printed in the Museum by visiting artists. Some of these had been commissioned by Council''
Councillor Bill Horrocks, Mayor of the City of Maribyrnong in 2002:
''(Mr Isaachsen) has been the only person in Melbourne to save and protect the last of these items of printing heritage'' he said.
DETAIL OF THESE AND OTHER REFEREES
Please see the Referee Page for more, and the actual letters and statements.
THEN THERE IS THE PAGE OF LINKS to BLOGs, opinions, images and a few videos offered by our referees. Go to the "Referee Links" page (off the Referee Page).
There are many links to this Museum on the web. A lot are from universities and historical organisations around the world: some are just a few words and a link. And there are also bloggers and flikr (etc) members who feature the Museum in some way.
In turn, MMOP links back to them. These are our "Referee Links" and they also are featured on our "Referee Links" page (off the Referee Page).
Lots of interesting links, from people who are interested in the graphic arts and know about MMOP. Visitors' videos and blogs show how they have appreciated their experience. All kinds of feedback! They are good reading.
Flickr, Instagram and similar sites have been populated by lovers of MMOP.
Learn and Enjoy !
GLOSSARY OF TYPE AND PRINTING
—UNIQUE TO MMOP—
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