The "Kulturhuef" in Grevenmacher reopens its new and improved printing museum.
New objects were added to the exhibition, allowing visitors an even more detailed look into the beginnings of print. Its history begins even before Gutenberg's famous invention of the printing press and reaches into the 21st century.
The exhibition “Gutenberg Revisited” presents visitors with new aspects of the history of print, all while promoting the preservation of the age-old craft.
One of the main goals of the improvements was to extend the time frame covered in the exhibition.
Johannes Gutenberg is widely known as the inventor of the modern printing press, which revolutionised western civilization in the 15th century. The Gutenberg bible was one of the main achievements soon after the invention of the printing press. The first Gutenberg bible was printed between 1452 and 1454 and around 180 bibles were printed. In Luxembourg however, the first printing presses arrived much later.
The ground floor of the museum displays a number of printing presses to illustrate the evolution of the then revolutionary new technology. Visitors will even have the possibility of trying their own hand at printing and pressing and will be able to take their creation home as a little souvenir.
