Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum
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HWT&PM is one of the world's largest collections of wood type and hosts visitors, artists, & printers in a working museum. Become a member today!
The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. With 1.5 million pieces of wood type and more than 1,000 styles and sizes of patterns, Hamilton's collection is one of the premier wood type collections in the world. In addition to wood type, the Museum is home to an amazing array of advertising cuts from the 1930s through the 1970s, and all of the equipment necessary to make wood type and print with it, as well as equipment used in the production of hot metal type, tools of the craft and rare type specimen catalogs.
Hamilton staff host educational demonstrations, field trips, workshops and offer opportunities for artists, printers, historians and other scholars to experiment with this vast wood type collection. Self guided tours are available anytime during our regular business hours. Guided tours of the museum are provided at 1 and 3 pm daily. Please contact the museum at info@woodtype.org or (920) 794-6272 for more information or to schedule a group visit.
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If you want more letterpress in your life check out "Pressing On: The Letterpress Film." We are taking over their social media accounts for the week! We are the Executive Producer of the film and happy to help share letterpress printing with a wider audience. "Pressing On" is a feature length documentary examining the people who are keeping letterpress alive. https://www.facebook.com/letterpressfilm/
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Get hands-on with some beautiful, vintage wood type in our next workshop. We are pulling out some sweet type for the 'Letterpress Workshop: Gothic (& Globe)' on March 18. http://woodtype.org/events/workshopgothic
Manitowoc County Historical Society
We're feeling a little nostalgic today. Here's a fun video featuring students and schools from the Manitowoc Public School District. We absolutely love the swimming lessons and cake baking, but if you want to see the typesetting and printing skip ahead to 5:45.
Familiar Faces & Extended Families Workshop
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Letterpress & Bookmaking Workshop
Familiar Faces & Extended Families workshop - Gothic
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We are very excited to get a new roof on the museum! For the construction we will be closed starting at 2 pm on Friday, March 3 and all day on Saturday, March 4. We are sorry for any inconvenience.
Transit’s 2017 outbound call for entries for Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum
You have until this Friday, March 3 to apply for a two-week residency at the museum. TRANSIT and the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum are pleased to invite Midwestern artists, printers, and book artists to apply. https://www.transitresidency.org/TRANSITresidency/transit-news/transits-2017-outbound-call-for-entries-for-hamilton-wood-type-printing-museum/
The museum will be closed this Saturday, March 4, 2017 for construction. The museum will reopen for business on Tuesday, March 7 at 10am. We are sorry for any inconvenience.
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Super stoked to see this AIGA article featuring Dafi Kühn's top 5 poster picks with his Hamilton poster coming in at #2. Check out this sweet making-of video shot at the museum: https://vimeo.com/99390496
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