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Baroque Book Design | Special Days

All activities are free of charge with your admisson ticket for the Museum Plantin-Moretus.

Color our collection

The Museum Plantin-Moretus has a rich collection of prints and drawings. This collection is among the finest in the world, and focuses on Antwerp artists from 1500 to the present. Most of the prints are in black and white. And therefore ideal for you to add a little color to them.

Christmas in Museum Plantin-Moretus

A Christmas tree in the hall, a Neapolitan Nativity scene in the drawing room and garlands on the wall: it's Christmas.

Baroque Book Design

A tale of friendship and collaboration

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Discover the magic of the Museum. In mansion and printing press. In room and studio. In letters and typography. In beautiful books. Experience how, long before our digital age, words and images were spread around the world. Here is an overview of our activities.

'Grotesques' catalogue

The enchanting fantasy world of the grotesques was developed centuries ago in the Southern Netherlands and has inspired manu artists ever since. A few fragments of the catalogue ...

From lead to pixel

From lead to pixel - Graphic (r)evolutions in Belgium brings together five printing museums in Belgium. Each of the five museums takes a unique look at various aspects of Belgian printing history.

Old languages, new languages

Plantijn publishes numerous language works and textbooks. Jan Moretus published the first explanatory dictionary of the Dutch language.

Science at full speed

The port city of Antwerp and Plantijn's publishing house are a crossroads for the exchange of knowledge.

About people, power and society

In order to strengthen their image, rulers spread images of joyful entrances, triumphs or trials.