Museum of Printing Art
The Leipzig Museum for the Art of Printing in the traditional book and publishing city is a museum that documents older printing techniques . It is located on Nonnenstrasse in the Plagwitz district of Leipzig .
What is special about the museum is the way the collection is presented: the printing machines and presses are not presented as silent witnesses of their time, but rather demonstrate the working methods in a lively way. Visitors can be introduced to the secrets of black art by book printers , typesetters and a type caster . A museum that is also a printing workshop to touch and participate in, making it ideal for courses and workshops, and which is also particularly used by artists . The museum has made a name for itself nationwide with events such as the Leipzig Typo Days, special exhibitions with partners from all over Germany, Israel, Switzerland, France and most recently Finland as well as international artist workshops.
The collection includes the type foundry , a workshop for wood engraving ( xylography ), a typesetter with the presentation of the oldest method, the hot type , printing presses and machines, a fully equipped bookbinding workshop and much about fonts and typography . The collection includes, among other things, one of the last collotype printers in the world. Special exhibitions, events and workshops are held in the museum.
history
The museum was founded in 1994 by Eckehart Schumacher-Gebler and has since been supported by the Society for the Promotion of the Art of Printing Leipzig e. V. promoted with the intention that in view of the dominance of MAC, PC and Mouse as well as increasing illiteracy, the reading and writing culture is promoted and supported by a broad base. In 2000 it was transferred to a foundation . The Giesecke + Devrient Foundation has been the sponsor of the museum since 2010 . The museum has been part of the Saxon Route of Industrial Culture since 2014 and was the initiator for the recognition of artistic printing techniques as an intangible cultural heritage by the German Commission for UNESCO as a form of culture that is carried into the future through creative further development measures with artistic means . In July 2019 the museum celebrated its 25th anniversary.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The funding company. In: Museum for Printing Art Leipzig. Retrieved July 11, 2019 .
- ^ Museum for Printing Art Leipzig. In: Giesecke + Devrient Foundation. Retrieved July 11, 2019 .
- ^ Route of industrial culture in Saxony. In: Industrial culture in Saxony. Retrieved July 11, 2019 .
- ^ Judith Grajewski: Artistic printing techniques are an intangible cultural heritage. In: print.de. March 21, 2018, accessed July 11, 2019 .
- ^ Martina Reinhardt: 25 years of the Museum for Printing Art in Leipzig. print.de, July 3, 2019, accessed on July 11, 2019 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 43.6 " N , 12 ° 20 ′ 35.8" E