Hoya Printing Museum

The Hoya Printing Museum is a privately run technology museum dedicated to the history of printing technology . It is located in the town of Hoya in the Lower Saxony district of Nienburg / Weser .

Various historical printing presses and accessories for book printing are presented in the museum on around 150 m² . They give an impression of the 550-year history of book printing with the help of lead typesetting . Showpieces are a 1.5 t heavy Linotype typesetting machine and a toggle press of 1866, which comes from Berlin and is the oldest printing press. In addition, a six kg printing cylinder with which the last edition of the Weserkurier from June 9, 1984 was printed with lead type.

From 1998 to the end of 2019, the museum was located in a former rectory in the immediate vicinity of the Hoya Museum of Local History . The museum has been moving to new premises in Hoya since 2020 and is not yet accessible to the general public.

See also

• List of printing museums
• List of museums in the Nienburg / Weser district

Web links

• Printing Museum, 27318 Hoya, Kirchstraße 30 at museum-hoya.de
• Two exhibitions. From Gutenberg's letters to laptops on July 24, 2015 at Kreiszeitung.de
• Michael Linke runs a printing museum in Hoya / New Exhibition. Linotype typesetting machine attracts many visitors on July 29, 2015 at Kreiszeitung.de
• Between wooden letters and typewriters: Exhibition in the Hoya Local History and Printing Museum. The typographic adventure playground on August 17th, 2015 on weser-kurier.de
• Museum printing house Hoya on nienburg-online.de
• Museum Printing House Hoya on Facebook.com
• Relocation to new premises on August 23, 2019 on Kreiszeitung.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 48 ′ 28.7 "  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 55.2"  E