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The International Printing Museum, breathing life into history of printing
The International Printing Museum, located in Carson, CA, is a dynamic museum devoted to bringing the history of books, printing and the book arts to life for diverse audiences. The staff and volunteers make it their mission to take one of the world’s most significant collections of antique printing machinery and interpret it for today’s audiences through working demonstrations and theater presentations.
Since 1988, the Museum has reached over 250,000 people, both those visiting on-site and those visited by Ben Franklin with the History in Motion trailer, which teaches about the history of books and printing, great inventions, and inventors that helped make our world. The International Printing Museum has been recognized worldwide for the size and importance of its collection and for the successful and creative approach to interpreting the collection for the community and the world at large. The Museum’s Book Arts Institute offers letterpress, book arts and printmaking classes to the public.
Envelopments and the International Printing Museum share a unique connection which began in the summer of 2009. I am on the Museum’s Book Arts Institute Advisory Panel, and had paid a visit to Envelopments staff member Patty Randall who had taken one of my book arts classes. What I thought would be a quick coffee visit turned into an impromptu meeting with Envelopments President Mark Smith who overheard me talking about letterpress. A few minutes later the office staff was involved in a spontaneous book folding exercise and it wasn’t long before the Envelopments design department paid a visit to the Museum to experience a tour and print letterpress posters themselves using antique wood type.
Subsequently, Envelopments became a key supporter of the first annual Los Angeles Printers Fair hosted by the Museum in August 2009 which drew hundreds of enthusiasts. Mark Smith and Mark Barbour, Director of the Printing Museum, soon met and quickly sensed both organizations’ passion for communication history and education. As Envelopments is now part of communications history by pioneering the mix and match custom invitation system, there was an alignment of interests and Envelopments now supports the Museum’s mission through donations and promotion.
We invite you to visit The International Printing Museum via the web and if you are in the area please come for a tour or a class…you’ll be impressed!
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International Printing Museum
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