General Admission

Address: 36 Moreland Street, Footscray

THE MUSEUM IS NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

AT PRESENT, WE ARE OPEN ON SUNDAY AND THURSDAY AFTERNOONS FROM 2 P.M..

SEASONAL NOTES: PLEASE NOTE: THE MUSEUM WILL BE CLOSED FOR TWO WEEKS OVER CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR. Last open day before break: Sun 23 Dec 2007 First open day after break: Thu 17 Jan 2008 Prospective visitors from 'far away' are welcome to negotiate a time over the holiday season. Ring 9689 7555 and leave a message.

SCHOOL GROUPS AND CITIZENS' CLUB GROUPS WELCOME BY APPOINTMENT ONLY, ON NON-PUBLIC DAYS.

HOURS AND DAYS WILL INCREASE AS MORE VOLUNTEERS BECOME AVAILABLE.

NOTE

The Museum was totally closed from 1998 until 2004, when a limited service was started in part of our new location. The Museum is now operating in a new area where there is room to move!

More of the Museum is now open for public visits, classes for students of typography and the artist's access studio.

what you can see

Visitors are able to see various facets of typesetting and printing, including:

• Gutenberg's invention of movable types,
• Typesetting (by hand) with movable types,
• Linotype machine (hot metal composition),
• Ludlow machine (hot metal for large or fancy type),
• Poster types (usu. wood) for large lettering,
• engravings needed to print an illustration,
• stereotypes (duplicates of typesettings),
• the hand press as used by early printers,
• the cylinder press (more modern process),
• posters, books and other works printed in our studio by visiting artists,
• books in our Library of Books as Artefacts, where the interest is not "Who wrote it?" but "Who printed it, and how?",
• examples from our archival collections of thousands of artefacts and documents, illustrating the day-to-day work of the printing trade, and
• a slide show on traditional printing and the Museum's collections and programs.

ADMISSION PRICES