Museum Enschedé is a defunct museum that was located in the center of

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...

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, on the Klokhuisplein 5, across from the

St. Bavochurch The Grote Kerk or St.-Bavokerk is a Reformed Protestant church and former Catholic cathedral located on the central market square ( Grote Markt) in the Dutch city of Haarlem. Another Haarlem church called the Cathedral of Saint Bavo now serves ...

History

In 1904 the museum was founded in a building that was part of the first printing complex in use by

Joh. Enschedé Royal Joh. Enschedé () is a Printer (publisher), printer of security documents, Postage stamp, stamps and banknotes based in Haarlem, Netherlands. Joh. Enschedé specialises in print, media and security. The company hosted the Museum Enschedé un ...

, a historical site in Haarlem that was dug up in the 1990s and is today home to an underground parking garage. The building was previously a workshop for the ''Grafische Inrichting'', or

Typography Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing ( leading), and ...

. The Joh. Enschedé company was at one time the largest printer in the Netherlands which from 1737 to 1940 printed the Oprechte Haerlemsche Courant and from 1810 onwards became a mint that printed banknotes and later postage stamps. The museum used to have on display an overview of the art of printing in Haarlem and the Typeography of Enschedé in particular. The collection of newspapers has been put online via the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the collection of atlases by

Joan Blaeu Joan Blaeu (; 23 September 1596 – 21 December 1673) was a Dutch cartographer born in Alkmaar, the son of cartographer Willem Blaeu. Life In 1620, Blaeu became a doctor of law but he joined the work of his father. In 1635, they published ...

has also been digitized. Work is being done to digitize other parts of the collection. There are artifacts regarding ''Costeriana'' (things that support the legend of Laurens Janszoon Coster) and the art of printing banknotes through the centuries in Haarlem. The museum was closed in 1990 when the Joh. Enschedé offices moved to the Oudeweg. In 2015, most of the collections were moved to the Noord-Hollands Archief.

External links

Information about Museum Enschedé on the website of the Noord-Hollands Archief
Museums in Haarlem Museums established in 1904 1904 establishments in the Netherlands Defunct museums in the Netherlands Printing press museums 20th-century architecture in the Netherlands {{Netherlands-museum-stub