Muzeum Drukarstwa w Cieszynie
Museum in a renovated townhouse in Cieszyn, with a historic printing works, working machines and graphic and bookbinding workshops.
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About the museum
The Printing Museum in Cieszyn was founded in 1996 to commemorate the printing traditions of Cieszyn Silesia. The company Prodruk handed historic printing equipment over to the town, and in the following years the collections were supplemented with the equipment of a closed university typography workshop, a boiler for melting linotype alloy, a titler with a set of matrices, a line-casting machine and drawers of type. In 2003 the Association of the Printing Museum in Cieszyn was founded, and in 2004 a graphic workshop was opened.
Since 2010 the museum has been on the Route of Technical Monuments of the Silesian Voivodeship, and in 2014 it received the Silesian Juliusz Ligoń Award. In April 2019 it was closed for expansion and modernisation. After the renovation, in 2022, the management of the institution was included in the structure of Cieszyn Castle, which runs the facility jointly with the association.
The museum is housed in a renovated historic townhouse at ul. Głęboka, to which a new wing has been added. A visit resembles a visit to a 19th-century printing works, with fully working equipment preserved. Participants in the graphic workshops make linocuts, and in the bookbinding workshops they sew a notebook with their own hands.
Highlights
- Historic printing works with working machines, presses and bookbinding equipment
- Typographic machine with a set of type, chemigraphic and woodcut matrices
- Graphic workshops (linocut) and bookbinding workshops (your own notebook)
- Route of Technical Monuments of the Silesian Voivodeship
- Guided tour included in the ticket price
Permanent exhibition
- Ekspozycja stała Muzeum Drukarstwa – Historic printing works with typographic machines, type, platen presses and bookbinding equipment, shown with a guide.
- Founded
- 1996
- Operated by
- Zamek Cieszyn we współpracy ze Stowarzyszeniem Muzeum Drukarstwa w Cieszynie
Admission & discounts
| Adults | 19 zł |
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| Groups | –Workshops are only for organised groups, after prior telephone booking. |
| Families | 60 złFamily ticket for the exhibition: 2 adults and 2 children; each additional person +PLN 0.01. |
| Package ticket: visit and graphic workshop (price per person) | 39 złThe workshop together with the visit lasts about 90 minutes. |
| Package ticket: visit and bookbinding workshop (price per person) | 39 zł |
| Workshop ticket (price per person) | 29 zł |
The ticket price includes the guiding service during the visit and instructor support during the workshops.
Accessibility
- Partially wheelchair accessible
- Elevator
- Accessible restroom
- Accessible parking
- Service dogs welcome: no information
- Tactile models & exhibits: no information
- Sign language tours
- Easy-to-read materials: no information
- Audio description: no information
The main entrance from ul. Głęboka is reached by four steps, so wheelchair users are advised to enter from ul. Stromej, where there is one parking space for people with disabilities (after prior notice) and a wide glazed door. Access from ul. Zamkowej leads up a steep paved ramp that is sometimes not cleared of snow in winter. On the ground floor there are the ticket office, the gallery of temporary exhibitions, the permanent exhibition and a toilet adapted for people with disabilities; a lift leads to the upper floor, and from the gallery to the permanent exhibition rooms there are two steps. The museum has no induction loop of its own, but the loop in the Tourist Information Centre of Cieszyn Castle can be used; a sign language interpreter must be ordered a week in advance.
Kids & families
Great for kids & families
| Family ticket | 60 zł · Family ticket for the exhibition: 2 adults and 2 children; each additional person +PLN 0.01. |
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- Family tours & workshops
- Hands-on stations
The graphic workshops are adapted for children, including pre-school children; a family ticket costs PLN 60.
Getting there & parking
By public transit
ul. Michejdy · 200 m
The public transport stop at ul. Michejdy is about 200 m from the museum; the railway station and bus interchange are about 1 km away (15–20 minutes on foot along ul. Czarny Chodnik and ul. Zamkowej, or via the Market Square and ul. Głęboka).
By car
Free parking · 300 m to the entrance
The nearest free car park is at ul. Dojazdowa, about 300 m from the museum (one space for people with disabilities); in the courtyard at ul. Stromej there is one parking space.
- Accessible parking
Ulica Głęboka is hilly in character.
Get directionsAmenities & dining
- Coat check
On the ground floor there is a cloakroom and toilets.
Events & venue rental
The museum hasn’t published any information on this.
Plan your visit
| Guided tours | yes |
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| School programs | yes |
| Good to know | The visit is guided, with entries on the hour. Graphic and bookbinding workshops are for organised groups and require telephone booking (+48 508 200 248). The demonstrations are protected by copyright. |
