Plantin-Moretus-Museum
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The Plantin- Moretus Museum at the Friday Market 22-23 in Antwerp dates back to the printing of Christopher Plantin ( Christoffel Plantin ) from the 16th century. She is the only surviving book printing from the time of the Renaissance and Baroque and was included in the list of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO in 2005 as the first museum.
Historical print
The printing company was founded in 1555. She was one of the largest of its time and is considered the first industrial printing press. She counted up to 16 printing presses and had about 80 employees. Plantin made his publishing house became a meeting place for major humanists, such as Justus Lipsius, but also printed Catholic and Reformed books. After his death, his son Jan Moretus -law took over the print shop, which now became an important institution of the Counter-Reformation. Later, the publishing house was in close contact with Peter Paul Rubens, who also illustrated books of the manufactory.
Museum and Library
1876 Edward Moretus sold the printer with the entire inventory of the city of Antwerp, which set up a museum.
The Plantin- Moretus Museum houses the oldest printing presses in the world ( 1600) and a typographic treasury with countless metal printing Letter types. In addition, the collection of prints from the 16th and 17th centuries, is one of the most important in the world.
The library with around 25,000 old volumes provides a nearly complete overview of the book production of Plantiniana from the 16th to the 19th century, but it also has about 600 manuscripts of the 9th - 16th Century and the whole financial Archive Officina Plantiniana. Among the most important works are the five languages Biblia Polyglotta (1567-1572), Abraham Ortelius ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum famous Atlas ( 1579), the Thesaurus Linguae Teutoniae and the book of herbs Rembert Dodoens.
The house on the Friday Market united labor and living area. The magnificent patrician apartment is equipped with art furniture, paintings (including Rubens), gold leather wallpaper, sculptures and porcelain.