What languages appear on the exhibition displays?

Labels and explanatory panels are provided in French and English.

What does the museum exhibit?

Exhibits cover the history of printing and graphic communication, including historical printed books, early Western presses, and modern typesetting machinery.

Where is the museum located?

The museum is housed in the historic Hôtel de la Couronne in Lyon.

Which early Lyon printers are represented in the collection?

The collection includes works by local printers such as Martin Husz, Josse Bade, Sébastien Gryphe, Etienne Dolet, Jean de Tournes, Guillaume Rouillé, and Bernard Salomon.

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Researchers working on European book trade history divide their weeks between the municipal library collections and the printing archives at Hôtel de la Couronne.

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Lyon preserves its legacy as a European book printing centre inside the Museum of Printing and Graphic Communication.

Master printer Maurice Audin and book historian Henri-Jean Martin established the institution to protect the municipal graphic legacy. The collection occupies Hôtel de la Couronne on rue de la Poulaillerie, a mansion that formerly hosted assemblies of the city aldermen. Donated to the municipality by the LCL banking corporation, the site preserves original printing presses and typographic archives within historic administrative halls.

Galleries display works by early Lyon printers including Martin Husz, Sébastien Gryphe, and Etienne Dolet alongside European masterworks by Aldus Manutius and Christopher Plantin. Beyond early movable type, exhibits feature modern developments such as the Lumitype-Photon phototypesetter and the BBR computer typesetting system. Bilingual French and English exhibition panels guide visitors through each stage of technical production.

Verbände

European book tradeThe city developed as an international publishing centre for early printed volumes.
Hôtel de la CouronneCity aldermen conducted their formal civic assemblies inside the municipal headquarters.
Typesetting innovationExhibits feature groundbreaking phototypesetting machinery alongside computer systems.
Archival selectionGallery streamlining reduced the total volume of original documents on public display.

Fakten

The museum was co-founded by master printer Maurice Audin and Lyon chief library curator Henri-Jean Martin.
Explanatory labels throughout the permanent exhibition route appear in both French and English.
The building was donated to the city municipality by the commercial bank LCL.
The collection exhibits early print volumes by local typographers Etienne Dolet and Sébastien Gryphe.

Aktualisiert am 9. September 2026Quelle: Wikipedia

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Lyon preserves its legacy as a European book printing centre inside the Museum of Printing and Graphic Communication.

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