The Printing Museum
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Physical address: 54 Flux Rd, Mangaroa, Upper Hutt.
Museum, classes, workshops, resources. Linked with the WCBA - Wellington Centre for Book Arts. Enquiries welcome.
Contact: Dan Tait-Jamieson
0274 444 599
info@theprintingmuseum.org.nz
www.theprintingmuseum.org.nz
The Museum operates mainly from a WWII depot behind Upper Hutt. The "bunker" houses a Linotype, three Monotype Casters, a Nebitype, Elrod and Ludlow while the printery has available two Albions, a Furnival stop-cylinder, several platens and a Vandercoook SP-15 for classes and demonstrations. The main warehouse contains the bulk of the collection, seven more linecasters, large presses, guillotines, folders, a typewriter collection and numerous other items. In late 2019, the museum opened the WCBA, the Wellington Centre for Book Arts, in central Wellington. The new centre, with bindery, printery and composing room, offers classes in the book arts and acts as a showroom and community workshop. The long-term vision is to find a large permanent building in central Wellington—a combination of working printing museum, book arts centre, community workshop, specialised printery and type foundry that will be a national and international attraction. It will also be a fitting home for these national taonga - fortuitously collected and painstakingly restored over so many years.
Details from Google Maps
54 Flux Road, Mangaroa, Upper Hutt 5371