Ok, I’m obviously on a museum kick but I promise to go low-brow again real’ soon. A biggo, biggo, jumbo tip o’ the hat to prepressure.com for finding this gem and the photos. Plantin-Moretus Museum has an English language version of their website and you should just dive in! Their opening line says it all:
The atmosphere of a real printing business, where the smell of paper and ink blends with the sound of the platen, fiercely pushed on the press, cannot be conveyed in this virtual visit. To savour it, you should come and pay a real visit to this old Antwerp printing facility.
Let’s go! Who’s got my ticket to Belgium.
Set Type
Sand Cast Type
Type Foundry
Working Press Room
A typographic, designological, visulicious extravaganza!