Museo tipografico di Porretta Terme

About the museum

The Typographical Museum of Porretta Terme, in the municipality of Alto Reno Terme, was founded in July 2015 by Dante Pisi, who began his career as a printer in 1955 with a treadle press, a model that also appears in the film “La banda degli onesti”.

The museum displays historic printing machines, largely from the nineteenth century onwards, which show the main stages of typesetting and printing. The exhibits include printing presses, guillotine paper cutters, Olivetti and Underwood typewriters, a Linotype, book presses, and lead and wooden type.

Millions of movable type pieces are kept in wooden cabinets. A collection of posters and printed matter also documents the history of Porretta Terme and the surrounding area.

Highlights

• Historic printing machines from the 19th and 20th centuries
• Linotype, printing presses and guillotine cutters
• Millions of movable type pieces in wooden cabinets
• Olivetti and Underwood typewriters
• Posters and printed matter on the history of Porretta Terme

Permanent exhibition

• Collezione di macchine e caratteri tipografici – Historic printing presses, movable type and local printed matter.

Founded

2015

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