Collection & research
Discover our collections and how you can explore them. Online, or in our reading room.
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Our collections
The collections of the Museum Plantin-Moretus are extremely diverse. Most of them are closely connected to the business operations and family life of Christoffel Plantin and his successors, the Moretus family. Discover a large part of these unique collections in the online catalogues: printing plates, presses, casting moulds, type cases, stamps and matrices, furniture, prints and drawings, paintings, and much more.
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Research
Explore the collections of the Museum Plantin-Moretus online: the museum collection, early printed books and manuscripts, prints and drawings, and archives — including 14,000 woodcuts in high resolution.
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Visit the reading room
In our reading room you can consult numerous authentic documents. You will find a precious archive of printed works, manuscripts and drawings.
