The Printing Museum

Mechanical printing with a letterpress with its associated craft of typesetting was the dominant technology from the fifteenth century. But in the twentieth century it was superseded with the advent of phototypesetting.

During the letterpress era many wonderful machines were developed. Some of these have been saved from being scrapped and are in storage in the Mangaroa premises of the The Printing Museum where unfortunately space is limited.

The registered charity running the Printing Museum has a long-term vision to establish
"a combination of working printing museum, book arts centre, community workshop, specialised printery and type foundry."