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- Cheongju Early Printing Museum
- 713 Jikji-daero, Heungdeok-gu, Chungcheongbuk-do, Cheongju, 28472, Republic of Korea
- The Cheongju Early Printing Museum is Korea’s only museum dedicated to early printing culture. It is situated at the former site of Heungdeoksa Temple (Historic Site No. 315) in Cheongju, where Jikji, the world’s oldest surviving book printed with movable metal type, was once printed. In March 1992, the Cheongju City Government inaugurated the museum at the present site, to inform the world that the Korean people are a people of culture who invented the world’s first movable...
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- Roja Muthiah Research Library
- 3rd Cross Road, CPT Campus, Taramani, Tamil Nadu, Chennai, 600113, India
- The Roja Muthiah Research Library (RMRL) was founded in 1994 to preserve, catalogue, and expand the collection of Late Roja Muthiah, a private collector who put together one of the world’s finest private libraries of Tamil publications during his lifetime. Located in Chennai, RMRL currently houses one of the most unique collections of Tamil imprints in South Asia. Some of the publications date from the latter part of the eighteenth century. With a collection of more than 4,00,000 items,...
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- Atelier du Livre d'art & de l'Estampe - Imprimerie nationale
- 104, avenue du Président Kennedy, Paris, Paris, 75016, France
- The Imprimerie Nationale’s Art Book and Print workshop is a unique collection in the world that summarizes the history of the printed book, shows its craft techniques and keeps them alive. It combines, in fact, the exceptional heritage of its collections, the oldest of which dates back to François I, punches, lead type, vignettes, wood and intaglio engravings, gilding irons, totaling nearly 700,000 pieces - the range of crafts that make up the history of printing and its techniqu...
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