MuseumOfPrinting.org A museum is Andover dedicated to the preserving of printing art
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The Museum of Printing, North Andover, Mass.
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- FriendsofThe Museum of Printing
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- North Andover MA
- United States 01845
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About the Museum
Museum hours are Wednesday through Saturday 10 am to 5 pm and by appointment. Please call ahead for group visits. Admission is $5 ($3 students and seniors; children under 6 free).
The museum is a non-profit organization, incorporated in 1978 as The Friends of The Museum of Printing, Inc., to save printing equipment and library materials associated with arcane technologies. The history of printing has changed dramatically during the last 100 years, moving away from letterpress printing to photographic and electronic technologies. The museum tells the stories of these changes using one of the world’s largest collections of printing hardware (see The Collection).
The ground floor of the 25,000 sq. ft. museum contains two 90-foot galleries, a large lobby, a library and access to the library’s archival stacks (4 floors). The Robert L. Richter Memorial Library is named after one of the two people who began the museum effort (see Library). The second floor contains a large meeting room, offices and additional future display space (see Current Exhibit).
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