Museo della stampa e stampa d’arte Andrea Schiavi

About the museum

The museum opened in June 2008 in the premises of the former Lodigraf printing works, later Il Pomerio, which was active until the early 1980s. Its main founder, Andrea Schiavi, with the support of experts in the field, created here a museum dedicated to the history of typographic and artistic printing over the centuries.

The displays occupy about 2,000 square metres that retain the architectural features of the old workshop. Perfectly restored machines and equipment illustrate the different techniques, from hand composition with lead and wooden type to mechanical type-casting, from intaglio printing to relief printing, and on to papermaking, with a small working teaching plant.

The museum is run by an association that organises workshops for schools, courses, meetings and presentations. It has a bookshop with items made in its workshops and a technical library with a documentation centre.

Highlights

• Columbian press, the only example in Italy
• Linotype and Monotype machines for mechanical composition
• Large lithographic stones from the Vallardi publishing house
• Teaching plant for papermaking
• Scale model of a wooden press similar to Gutenberg's

Permanent exhibition

• Collezione di macchine per la stampa – Cabinets of movable type, 19th-century presses, Linotype and Monotype machines, intaglio printing machines and a papermaking plant.

Founded

2008

Operated by

Associazione Museo della Stampa e Stampa d'Arte a Lodi

Admission & discounts

Free admission also for tourist guides and escorts, teachers accompanying school classes and journalists in the exercise of their work. The ticket is indicated as an entrance contribution.

Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible: no information
• Elevator: no information
• Accessible restroom: no information
• Accessible parking: no information
• Service dogs welcome: no information
• Tactile models & exhibits: no information
• Sign language tours: no information
• Easy-to-read materials: no information
• Audio description: no information

The museum states that it can welcome visitors with disabilities.

Kids & families

• Family tours & workshops
• Hands-on stations

Educational workshops for schools and groups, with hands-on activities on hand-made paper, typesetting and letterpress printing, and bookbinding.

Getting there & parking

The museum is at Via della Costa 4, on the edge of Lodi's historic centre, in an area easily reached from Via Defendente.

Amenities & dining

• Museum shop

Bookshop with items produced in the museum's workshops, publications and postcards.

Events & venue rental

• Spaces for rent

Up to 90 guests.

Inner courtyard and two rooms seating 40 and 90 people, for conferences, exhibitions and other events.

Plan your visit