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- Klingspor Museum
- Herrnstrasse 80 63065 Offenbach am Main, am Main, Offenbach, 63065, Germany
- The Klingspor Museum is well known for a collection of some 80.000 items telling a whole story about typography, printing, manuscripts and the art of the book. It is based on the typefoundary Klingspor, run by Karl Klingspor and his brother Wilhelm. The firm intended to understand all forms of writing and type in strict neighbourhood to the visual arts. Excellent prints, especially the so called typeprobes, proof the wide range of artistic forms coming out of the conception of fonts. Thanks t...
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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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