The Type Museum (closed)

100 Hackford Road
London
SW9 0QU
England

Website

www.typemuseum.org

E-mail

General information/bookings

enquiries@typemuseum.org

Telephone

Enquiries

020 7735 0055

Fax

020 7735 0039

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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Venue Type:

Museum

 Opening hours

The Type Museum closed to the public in May 2006.

 General services and facilities
  • Guided tours
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Shop
 Disability access
  • Touch exhibits
 Schools services and facilities
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Education facilities available
 Research and adult learning
  • Teaching/resources available for HE/FE students
  • Library with public access
  • Research facilities for academics

100 Hackford Road
London
SW9 0QU
England

Website

www.typemuseum.org

E-mail

General information/bookings

enquiries@typemuseum.org

Telephone

Enquiries

020 7735 0055

Fax

020 7735 0039

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

Objects of international significance including collections of Monotype, Stephenson Blake and DeLittle. The working museum forms an enduring record of technological and aesthetic developments in printing and typography since the sixteenth century. It is the only facility left with the working machinery and expertise to demonstrate the manufacture of punches and matrices as well as representing the evolution of language in almost every written culture in the world.

Collection details

Design, Industry, Social History

Key artists and exhibits

  • Monotype Corporation
  • Merrion Monotype Trust
  • Stephenson Blake
  • Robert DeLittle
  • Stephen Austin
  • William Clowes
  • London Polyglot Bible
  • American Declaration of Independence
  • Wharfedale Press
  • Columbian Press

Collections services

  • Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

100 Hackford Road
London
SW9 0QU
England

Website

www.typemuseum.org

E-mail

General information/bookings

enquiries@typemuseum.org

Telephone

Enquiries

020 7735 0055

Fax

020 7735 0039

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Resources listed here may include websites, bookable tours and workshops, books, loan boxes and more. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all.
 Face to face resources

Introduction to printing and typography

A FE/HE programme based around the traditional processes and machinery used in typography and printing. Guided tours led by an education specialist in the field and demonstrations on working machinery operated by experts covering hot metal casting by hand, the production of monotype punches and matrices, monotype keyboarding, mechanised casting, a working print shop exhibiting historical printing presses, and links to contemporary computerised design. (Group size: 20 max; Duration: 1.5 to 2 hours; Level: FE/HE graphic arts, typography, book arts & Foundation Art & Design)

How to obtain

Group visits are free (suggested voluntary contribution)
Phone 020 7735 0055 or e-mail enquiries@typemuseum.org to book

100 Hackford Road
London
SW9 0QU
England

Website

www.typemuseum.org

E-mail

General information/bookings

enquiries@typemuseum.org

Telephone

Enquiries

020 7735 0055

Fax

020 7735 0039

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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