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The Musée de l'Imprimerie is a
The Musee de l'Imprimerie was established in Lyon because Lyon had been a centre of printing and the book trade in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries and the city held large historical collections of books and the graphic arts. The museum was designed by the master printer and historian
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museum
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in Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city and Urban area (France), second-largest metropolitan area of F ...
, France, with the mission of enhancing, conserving, documenting and valuing the heritage of printed books and graphic arts.
The museum was inaugurated in 1964. In 2006 the ''Grand Guide Michelin France'' awarded it two stars out of three and in 2007, the museum had 16,819 visitors.
History
The Musee de l'Imprimerie was established in Lyon because Lyon had been a centre of printing and the book trade in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries and the city held large historical collections of books and the graphic arts. The museum was designed by the master printer and historian Maurice Audin
Maurice Audin (14 February 1932 – c. 21 June 1957) was a renowned French mathematics assistant at the University of Algiers, a member of the Algerian Communist Party and an activist in the anticolonialist cause, who died under torture by the Fr ...
, with the historian of the book, Henri-Jean Martin Henri-Jean Martin (16 January 1924 – 13 January 2007) was a leading authority on the history of the book in Europe, and an expert on the history of writing and printing. He was a leader in efforts to promote libraries in France, and the history o ...
, then chief curator of the Library of Lyon. There are two banners before the entrance of the Hôtel de la Couronne, which hosted the meetings of the City of Lyon aldermen
An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law. The term may be titular, denoting a high-ranking member of a borough or county council, a council member chosen by the elected members the ...
from 1604 to 1655 and which is currently the headquarters of the Musée de l'Imprimerie, located at 13 rue de la Poulaillerie
The Rue de la Poulaillerie is a street located in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, France. It was first named rue Vaudran, and also rue Maudite in reference to Peter Waldo, who founded what was considered a heresy at the time, the street received i ...
. In 1957 the building was given to the City of Lyon by the banking corporation, LCL S.A., and on 8 June 1963 the mayor of Lyon, Louis Pradel Louis may refer to:
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* HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy
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, inaugurated the Musée de la Banque on the occasion of the centenary of LCL. Finally the current museum was opened in 1964.
Alan Marshall, a former printer, was its director until May 2015. He was replaced, in summer 2015, by Joseph Belletante, researcher in media history.
The museum has works by early printers of Lyon, including Martin Husz, Josse Bade, Sébastien Gryphe
Sebastian Gryphius (french: Sébastien Gryphe; c. 1492, in Reutlingen – 1556, in Lyon) was a German bookseller- printer and humanist.
Biography
He was the son of Michael Greyff (Greif, Gryff, Gryph), and learned from him the new craft of pr ...
, Etienne Dolet, Jean de Tournes
Jean de Tournes (1504 – 1564) was a French printer, book publisher and bookseller, and the founder of a long-lasting family printing business. From 1559 he was the , printer to the French king.
Life
Jean de Tournes was born in Lyon in ...
, Guillaume Rouillé and Bernard Salomon. It shows the beginnings of Western printing from the fifteenth century - including examples of the work of Sweynheim and Pannartz, Aldus Manutius, Johann Froben, the Estiennes and Christopher Plantin - to the twentieth century. It includes displays of the 20th-century inventions, Higonnet and Moyroud's Lumitype-Photon phototypesetter and the BBR system of computer typesetting.
Further reading
* A. Marshall, 'The Musee de l'Imprimerie', in ''Parenthesis''; 22 (2012 Spring), p. 10-14References
External links
Official site
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