Melbourne Museum of Printing

Australia's working and teaching museum of typography and printing located at Footscray, Victoria. Specialising in retention of letterpress, both the equipment and the knowledge - but not ignoring recent developments, many of which are already history.

DID YOU KNOW? Some key facts about the Museum

The Museum's Internal Index

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OUR COLLECTIONS
Hundreds of machines: thousands of founts; tens of thousands of artefacts. Ancilliary collections of Office Equipment, Computers and Telephone gear.		 OUR PROGRAMS
Classes for Typography students; Workshops for Typography Professionals; Access Studios for Artists and Writers; Research and Public programs
TYPO GLOSSARY
The Melbourne Museum of Printing's Glossary of Printing and Typography: see the real meaning of many terms used in today's typographical software.		 ABOUT US
Our Addresses and contact numbers; our Mission; our People; VOLUNTEERING; our History.
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OUR TYPE FOUNDRY
The Museum supplies traditional printers with their requisites.		 BOOKLOVERS' SPECIAL
See how books were hand set and printed . . . come here and try it yourself!
LETTERPRESS MEMENTOS
You can buy a hand-printed souvenir or a decades-old letterpress-printed paperback or hardback.		 SOUVENIR PACKET OF REAL TYPES
You can mail-order a souvenir packet of assorted metal types.
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