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Australia's working and teaching museum of typography and printing located at Footscray, Victoria. Specialising in retention of traditional printing, both the equipment and the knowledge.

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Press Coverage of the Museum

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NOTE: ALL TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS ARE COPYRIGHT. All intending users please see our copyright notice page.

MUSEUM FEATURE IN PROPRINT MAGAZINE
July 2010

Keeping Craftsmanship Alive

This feature was written by Peter Kohn, reporter for ProPrint. The feature, over four pages covers the Australian Print Workshop and then the Melbourne Museum of printing. There are many illustrations.

The MMOP part of the feature has been reformatted for simplicity and smaller file size for emailing and this web page.

GO TO THE PROPRINT FEATURE on this website.

[ Includes a link to the original article on ProPrint website. ]

MUSEUM FEATURE IN MELBOURNE LEADER NEWSPAPERS
9th March 2010

The Maribyrnong Leader

The Brimbank Leader

The Hobsons Bay Leader

The Wyndham Leader

This feature was written by Stella Tzobanakis of Leader Newspapers. Stella contacted the Museum and suggested the feature to Museum Director Michael Isaachsen, who agreed to be interviewed. Leader photographer David Smith attended a few days later and took the magnificent picture.

The story is very readable and describes the Museum well despite a number of minor inaccurate details including the wrong web address. Several people have engaged with the Museum as a result of this article.

The article and main photo have been reformatted for simplicity and smaller file size for emailing and this web page. No changes have been made other than the web address and a spelling error.

DOWNLOAD THE LEADER ARTICLE (pdf 171 k) HERE.

RADIO NATIONAL NETWORK (AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION)

RADIO NATIONAL IS HEARD IN MELBOURNE ON 621 AM AND THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA AND ON THE NET AT http://www.abc.net.au/radio/listenlive.htm.

ABC PRESENTER:

ANTONY FUNNELL
AT THE MUSEUM

THIS PAGE REFERS TO AN ITEM ABOUT THIS MUSEUM, BROADCAST ON THE MEDIA REPORT
ON THURSDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2008.

THE ITEM IS BELIEVED TO BE STILL AVAILABLE AS TRANSCRIPT (TEXT) OR AUDIO FROM
THE ABC RN MEDIA REPORT WEB PAGE.

MELBOURNE MUSEUM OF PRINTING WAS FEATURED IN AN 8-MINUTE ITEM, WITHIN THE 30 MINUTE PROGRAM.

The feature includes many pictures and notes about:

handset movable typesetting,
Linotype (hot-metal) typesetting,
The Museum's collection
The Museum's programs including various workshop experiences, the letterpress studio and volunteering

LAST UPDATED 18 APRIL 2010

CLICK HERE FOR FEATURE

THE AGE (Melbourne Victoria) Feature 20070913

This great feature article was written by Viviane Stappmanns and the original pictures were the work of "Age" photographer Melanie Faith Dove.

The original pictures published with the article are shown here only as a thumbnail for identification purposes. Additional pictures on this page by Michael Isaachsen.

NOTE: ALL TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS ARE COPYRIGHT. All intending users please see our copyright notice page.

Letter for Letter

A life-long passion for printing led to the creation of one of Melbourne's least known, most hands-on museums, writes Viviane Stappmanns.

''The history of society is, to a large degree, the history of the craft of printing.'' Laurie Harding may be retired, but the speed at which he picks up the leaden letters to compose this sentence tells a story of his decades of experience.

Ironically, Harding himself is living proof of what he's spelling out . . .

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As at July 2010