Three hundred years of printing history
The Museum Plantin-Moretus will be closed for renovation work from 3 August to 4 December. During the closure, we will also be updating the permanent exhibition.
After 10 years, our permanent exhibition is due for a refresh. During the closure, we will be working on an updated visitor route, a new exhibition design, and a visitor app. With all these innovations, we aim to make the story of the printing house and the Plantin-Moretus family more accessible to a wider audience.
You can still visit the museum until 3 August. Haven't yet seen our exhibition Plantin's Plants or explored our newly landscaped inner garden? Now is the time to do so.
This isn't a museum, this is a home. A house where nine generations lived and worked. The Plantin-Moretus family were revolutionary printers. The first atlas, regal bibles, cutting-edge scientific books: they were all printed under this roof. And the books are still here. As if the work day has only just ended. The living quarters have been preserved as well, creaking floor boards included. Browse centuries-old books, roll up your sleeves at the printing press or immerse yourself in gripping stories.
You are most welcome.
This was a home, a publishing company and a printing house. A bit of everything, really. And always bustling with activity, as it has been for nearly 500 years. There's the permanent exhibition of course, but on top of that, the museum puts on various activities. Temporary exhibitions and workshops, kids and family days and late-night openings. Find out more about our activities.
The oldest surviving printing press in the world? The most illustrious books to ever be published? Prints, drawings and paintings of household names in Flemish art history? Elegant living chambers and a garden to match them? It's impossible to pick an absolute highlight. But we tried anyway:
