Printing Museum in Cieszyn

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The Printing Museum in Cieszyn was established in 1996 to commemorate the printing traditions in Cieszyn Silesia. It is located just below the castle hill, south of it. It is a memento of the largest printing house in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. From 1806, it belonged to the Prochaski family, who contributed to the popularization of printing in Cieszyn Silesia. The museum collections include, inter alia, a typographic machine with a set of fonts, pressure presses or bookbinding devices. This is the only place in Poland where all the collected equipment is fully operational. During the visit, visitors will have the opportunity to follow the successive stages of printing with the old, archaic method: from manual text arrangement using a single letter, subsequent folding and casting on a complicated typewriter, printing on paper, to the final stage of combining into a book. During graphic workshops, each participant will have the oportunity to prepare a matrix with text or a drawing on their own, and then emboss it, using an old printing press, on a paper. The museum is open only four days a week off-season, from Tuesday to Friday. Also on weekends in the summer season.

Please note that ITS-Poland works with groups only (10 participants and more).