Wildeshausen Printing Museum
The Wildeshausen Printing Museum is a privately run technology museum dedicated to the history of printing technology . It is located at Bahnhofstrasse 13 in the town of Wildeshausen in the Lower Saxony district of Oldenburg .
The museum is an originally furnished printing house that was founded in 1859. Until 1987 the "Wildeshauser Zeitung" (see Kreiszeitung # Kreiszeitung Verlagsgesellschaft ) was produced there.
The development of book printing over the past 125 years up to the introduction of phototypesetting is presented. You can see a manual typesetting , the first printing and typesetting machines , old printing presses , typesetting cases and repro cameras. There is also a hand bookbinding shop with machines from the early days of book printing.
The showpieces of the permanent exhibition are
- a wooden screw press on which the weekly newspaper "Die Hunte" was printed until 1860
- the Heidelberg cylinder machine that was used to print the Wildeshauser Zeitung
- a line caster
- the typesetting machines Typograph and Linotype
The museum is open individually by appointment. The Verkehrsverein Wildeshausen eV arranges guided tours
See also
Web links
- The Wildeshaus printing museum on wildeshausen.de
- Printing Museum at navigator.wildeshausen.de
- Wildeshausen Printing Museum at wildegeest.de
- Wildeshausen Printing Museum at outdooractive.com
- Typewriters from "Charly" Weiß adorn the WZ printing museum. The bumper machine dates from 1894 on July 24, 2014 on Kreiszeitung.de
Coordinates: 52 ° 53 ′ 51.7 " N , 8 ° 25 ′ 59.7" E