The Esbjerg Printing Museum () is located in the city of

Esbjerg Esbjerg (, ) is a seaport city and seat of Esbjerg Municipality on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in southwest Denmark. By road, it is west of Kolding and southwest of Aarhus. With an urban area, urban population of 71,554 (1 January ...

in the southwest of

Jutland Jutland (; , ''Jyske Halvø'' or ''Cimbriske Halvø''; , ''Kimbrische Halbinsel'' or ''Jütische Halbinsel'') is a peninsula of Northern Europe that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein). It ...

, Denmark. Established in 1979, it traces the history of the art of printing from the beginning of the 20th century until it was replaced by more rapid technologies. The collection includes a variety of equipment used to print books and newspapers, mainly from Germany and Denmark.

History

The members of ''Esbjerg typografiske Laug'' were themselves typographers. As they had difficulty in storing the machines they acquired, they ended up in various locations throughout Esbjerg. Prior to the opening of the museum, a composing machine and a printing press were stored in a garage in Neptunvej. The building in which the museum is housed was originally a farm produce facility built by Niels Hedegaard in 1905 for packing eggs and butter for export. In 1953, the property was purchased by I.C. Nielsen who used it as a smithy. In 1978, it was acquired by the local authority who made it available for ''Esbjerg typografisk Laug'' (Esbjerg Typographical Guild) who established the ''Bogtrykmuseet i Esbjerg'' in 1881. The Museum's supporters organization has about 700 members.

Museum

In the Composing Room, there are over a hundred wood and lead types. There are four fully operational type-setting machines: a Typograph, two Intertypes and a Linotype, all over a hundred years old. The Museum contains a large collection of printing types, displacing a fraction of its large collections of

type case A type case is a compartmentalized wooden box used to store movable type used in letterpress printing.Williams, Fred (1992). "Origin of the California Job Case". ''Type & Press'', fall 1992. http://www.apa-letterpress.com/T%20&%20P%20ARTICLES/T ...

s for different font sizes from small lead and

type Type may refer to: Science and technology Computing * Typing, producing text via a keyboard, typewriter, etc. * Data type, collection of values used for computations. * File type * TYPE (DOS command), a command to display contents of a file. * ...

s including large carved pear-wood type, as well as composing tools and

composing stick In letterpress printing and typesetting, a composing stick is a tray-like tool used to assemble pieces of metal type into words and lines, which are then transferred to a ''galley'' before being locked into a ''forme'' and printed. Many composi ...

s. The Printing Room houses a collection from the Eickhoff factory in Copenhagen which was active from the 1890s until the mid-20th century.

References

External links

Bogtrykmuseet website
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