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Workshop Master Bookbinder

Workshop for schools and groups

You will learn the basic techniques and bind your very first book. There’s plenty of choice: a private diary, notebook, photo album…

MuseJA!

Primary education

Go back in time with your pupils. Enter the home and publishing house of the world famous Christoffel Plantin. Experience how the famous Antwerp publishing family lived and worked.

Workshop Master Printer

Workshop for schools and groups

Arrange letters in mirror image in a composing stick, make up a complete page and print it on a genuine press.

Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade

The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade Conference 2025 is organised by the Museum Plantin-Moretus, KU Leuven, Utrecht University, and Northumbria University as part of the FWO research project ‘Partners in Innovation. Women Publishers as Knowledgeable Agents in the Low Countries' Book Trade (1550-1750)’.

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.

Temporary exhibitions

The Museum’s temporary exhibitions focus on a succession of different themes. Specific aspects of the house, the Plantin-Moretus family, the output of the Officina Plantiniana... you can learn more about each of these subjects.

Animals! Here, there and everywhere!

An active seek-and-find quest for sleuths from the age of four years

On the ground floor of the museum the whole family can hunt out common and unusual animals hiding in the works of art and on objects in the museum rooms.

In Plantin's Footsteps 2025

31 students from the Expert Class Type Design and the Saturday program Typography & Book Design will present their graduation works to the public in the four exhibition rooms of the Museum Plantin-Moretus.

    Tuesday 8 July 2025 until Sunday 7 September 2025 from 10:00 to 17:00

Women’s business/Businesswomen

9 generations of stories in publishing house and home

In the Plantin-Moretus family, women most definitely stood alongside their husbands, and not behind them. From the 13th of September onward, the museum will uncover 300 years of stories from women in this house. Stories that urgently need to be told. About daughters who corrected proofs from an early age. About maids and ladies. About women who not only climbed the social ladders, but made the ladders too. Men are also welcome.

    Saturday 13 September 2025 until Sunday 11 January 2026 from 10:00 to 16:30

Leading Ladies: Women’s Business / Businesswomen

tour for adults

For 300 years, women lived, worked, and moved through the printing house of the Plantin-Moretus family — not standing behind the men, but beside them. It’s about time we told their stories!

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