Association of European Printing Museums – an international printing heritage network
The AEPM shares knowledge, experience, initiatives, and resources in all fields of the graphic arts as they have been practised from the time of Jikji or Gutenberg until the present day.
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This week, the ANRT is welcoming Riccardo Olocco and Michele Patanè, who will be leading a workshop on the typefaces of John Baskerville (1706–1775). The workshop forms part of the interdisciplinary research project 'Small Performances', led by the universities of Cambridge and Birmingham.
Join Riccardo and Michele's talk this Thursday, 9 October at 5pm CET:
Lise Morisseau of the Malesherbes printing museum wrote a detailed report on our Birmingham conference just over a month ago. (It’s in French, but you can easily translate it; we are an international association embracing multilinguality :)
Next conference will be in Antwerp at the Plantijn Moretus museum in December 2026!
La conférence annuelle de l’association des musées européens de l’imprimerie (AEPM) s’est tenue cette année à Winterbourne House & Garden, de l’université de Birmingham, organisée par le Centre for Printing History and Culture (CPHC). Les membres du conseil d’administration de l’AEPM chargés de coordonner l’événement se sont réuni(e)s presque tous les mois en visioconférence avec…
Thinking recently about #museums that are “museums of themselves”, or museums whose history or presence overshadow the objects contained within. Kinda like the natural history museums in New York,¹ London,² or Paris,³ the Teylers museum in Haarlem,⁴ or the Mütter museum in Philadelphia.⁵ I also love small local history museums like the cheese museum in Alkmaar.⁶
Does anyone have any other favorites?
#historymuseums #naturalhistory #localhistory #museumlove #museumfavorites
Exploring printing heritage in theory and in practice 3-5 September 2025 | Winterbourne House, University of Birmingham, UK The conference is fully booked and ticket sales were closed on the 31st July. But if you would like to be put on the waiting list in the event of cancellations, please contact the conference office HERE. …
Exploring printing heritage in theory and in practice 3-5 September 2025 | Winterbourne House, University of Birmingham, UK The conference is fully booked and ticket sales were closed on the 31st July. But if you would like to be put on the waiting list in the event of cancellations, please contact the conference office HERE. …
Unpublished until now, a c. 2010 piece by Peter Campbell contemplating what type museums can preserve
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n24/peter-campbell/diary
In Birmingham library we saw very detailed, tiny, handwritten texts as street names on maps.
Next, in the pen museum we saw the precision instruments that the cartographers probably used. The sales samples of the pens, illustrating thier use, are fabulous artworks
Hold the front page! Tie a knot in your handkerchief! Do whatever you usually do to not forget! But save the date!
From 3–5 September 2025, the AEPM’s annual conference is being hosted by the Centre for printing history and culture (CPHC) in Birmingham
https://www.aepm.eu/news/aepm-2025-annual-conference-save-the-date/
3 – 5 September 2025 Hold the front page! Tie a knot in your handkerchief! Do whatever you usually do to not forget! But save the date! The AEPM’s annual conference is being hosted in 2025 by the Centre for printing history and culture (CPHC). As usual it is being held at a new venue,…
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