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The Plantin song

View and listen to the Plantin song

The Museum Plantin-Moretus has its own song for master printer Christophe Plantin. Les Øffs wrote the song and performed it during Museum Night 2014.

Enhanced protection

The Museum Plantin-Moretus belongs to a select group. Should armed conflict break out, it will enjoy enhanced UNESCO protection. Only ten such sites exist in the world.

Partners

The Museum Plantin-Moretus is a place for encounter and collaboration. Lovers of books, typography and historic houses are all drawn here. Expertise is shared with other institutions and partnerships are formed.

Partners

The Museum Plantin-Moretus is a place for encounter and collaboration. Lovers of books, typography and historic houses are all drawn here. Expertise is shared with other institutions and partnerships are formed.

Mysterious family heirloom

Descendants of the Moretus family recently donated a remarkable family heirloom to the Museum Plantin-Moretus. To put it simply, it resembles a painted cricket bat. The object’s function is a complete mystery.

Typopassion?

Is typography your passion, and would you like to learn more about it in all its facets? Then the two-year course in Typography and Design will be ideal for you.

Unknown, unloved

The archive of relatives of the Moretus family, especially the Schilders family

The name Moretus is fairly well-known. But what about Schilders? Who were the Schilders family, and how did their family archive and that of their relatives end up in the Museum Plantin-Moretus?

Hercules and the Nemean lion

Rubens had a soft spot for the ancient hero Hercules. In this drawing, he bends forward slightly as he crushes the head of the Nemean Lion. In his attempt to find the ideal posture, Rubens gave Hercules three right and two left legs.

Holiday workshops

School holidays? You know the place to go: the Museum Plantin-Moretus offers numerous workshops for your children aged 5 to 12 years. They are all about being creative using the basic printing techniques – etching, printing, stamping and bookbinding to name but a few. Your children will learn in a fun way and give their creativity free rein.

The shop

With its counter and cabinets, this shop is still fully furnished for the sale of books – right down to the money scales for checking silver and gold coins. The bookshop was moved here from Kammenstraat by Balthasar I Moretus in 1639.