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Visiting the museum with a group

Guided tours, creative workshops, printing demonstrations and day programmes: come to the museum with your group and make the visit more lively or varied with our group options.

Taking your class to the museum

Active, fun, educational guided tours... Creative workshops on books and printing... Activities for students of all ages.

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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Impressive woodblocks

Woodblocks from the Plantin printing house

The Plantin-Moretus Museum keeps an extraordinary collection of 14,000 woodblocks. With these examples of true craftsmanship, book illustrations and other decorative elements were printed in the Plantin printing house.

Accessibility

Everyone should be able to easily use and view the information on the website of Museum Plantin-Moretus, not least the visually impaired, blind, hearing impaired, deaf and persons with other disabilities. Museum Plantin-Moretus strives to make its website as accessible as possible, by 2022 at the latest. We do this in accordance with the EU directives and the Flemish Administration Decree.

Calendar

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.