Viborg Printing Museum

Distance: 2.92 Km

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At the Viborg Printing Museum you can experience the art of printing as it was done in the old days. Here you can see how people worked with their hands and experience how typesetting, printing and bookbinding are revived in working workshops - where you can also participate and not least learn from the old techniques.

A living craft history

The Viborg Printing Museum functions as a working printing museum, where visitors are not just passive - here you get to touch the technique and participate in the work.

The museum includes several workshops: hand typesetting, machine typesetting, type foundry, printing, bookbinding and a machine workshop for restoration and repair.

In the educational workshop, children and young people have the opportunity to try out the old techniques and participate in the printing process themselves.

History and background

The museum's origins date back to 1981, when three Viborg residents acquired equipment from the closed printing house "Vingaards Officin" to create a graphic workshop in Viborg. The name Vingaards Officin historically referred to the printer, Hans Vingaard, who printed Reformation letters in Viborg in 1529.