Gutenberg Museum

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  • Address
    Liebfrauenplatz 5, Alstadt
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    122 644

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Lonely Planet review

A heady experience for anyone excited by books, the Museum chronicles the history of the technology that made the world as we know it - including this guidebook - possible. Besides historical presses, old typesetting machines and several rooms on pre-Gutenberg printing in Korea, Japan and China, you can admire hand-copied manuscripts as well as printed masterpieces such as Gutenberg's original Bible. For a 1925 re-creation of Gutenberg's print shop, head to the basement.