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Love our collection of printing machinery, type and bindery equipment! 📄 We are currently closed to the public, but do get in touch if you would like to see anything from the collections, or arrange a workshop or lecture.

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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A few moments from the launch party for R. Stanley Nelson's new book, "The Typefounder's Hand Mould" held at the National Centre for Writing in Norwich yesterday, including a demonstration of typefounding and the use of the mould ...
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
A new monograph, Stan Nelson on the Typefounder's Hand Mould, will be published by the Museum and Legacy Press in the summer. Large octavo. 296 pp. Cloth + dust-jacket. $75.00 or £55.00 (£45 before 1 July), post-free in the UK.
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
One of the hand-moulds at the #norwichprintingmuseum. This is a French-style mould, made of steel with a brass "hopper mouth", probably made around 1800 for hand-casting type in the brevier size (roughly 8-point).
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
A wood-engraving of around 1873, showing a family printing with the Jabez Francis "parlour press". Only three original examples of this press are known to survive (two of them are at the Norwich Printing Museum).
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Medieval women in bookbinding. Were there any? Yes there were. Find out more at the Norwich Printing Museum ... norwichprintingmuseum.co.uk/2026/01/a-sh...
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Our traditional desk-calendar for 2026 was the last thing we printed at the Museum before we moved out of Blickling Hall in October. Copies have now been creased and will be available through our website.
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Read about "The wonderful adventures of Mrs [Mary] Seacole", the first black woman to publish her autobiography, and about her connections with Norwich ... norwichprintingmuseum.co.uk/2025/11/adve...
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
What's the story behind the Norwich Lesbian Line flyer? Find out on the #norwichprintingmuseum website ... norwichprintingmuseum.co.uk/2025/10/what...
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What’s the story behind… the Lesbian Line flyer - Norwich Printing Museum
Find out what a striking flyer can tell us about the connections between printing and LGBTQIA+ history...
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
TEXT & TEXTILE! is a new exhibition of work by artist Connie Flynn. During Connie's recent artist residency at the #norwichprintingmuseum, she explored the traditional process of letterpress, creating elements of her exhibited artworks. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/norfol...
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TEXT & TEXTILE! Art Exhibition | National Trust
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Our keepsake from the Mannington Book Bash, printed on the Jabez Francis parlour press. #manningtonbookbash #norwichprintingmuseum #bookfair #jabezfrancis
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
We will have a stall at the Mannington Book Bash this Saturday and Sunday. Come along and print a keepsake on one of our Jabez Francis parlour presses ... www.manningtonbookbash.co.uk
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
What to do in Norfolk in September? The Norwich Printing Museum is open on the Blickling Estate, every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, until the end of the month. After that, we are moving to a new home, so come and see us at Blickling while you can.
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Here's the oscillating roller of the Vicobold press working (with the new crescent in place).
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Casting a new crescent for the Norwich Printing Museum. It works!
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
The membership card is at last printed. Packs will be going to our Members next week.
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Connie Flynn (one of our Artists in Residence this year) has an exhibition, "Text and Textile" at Courtyard Arts in Port Vale, Hertford. It is open until next Saturday ... www.courtyardarts.org.uk/exhibitions/...
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TEXT & TEXTILE! - courtyardarts.org.uk
The latest collection of works by textile artist Connie Flynn.
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Connie Flynn (one of our Artists in Residence) has a new exhibition, "Text and Textile", opening next week at Courtyards Arts in Hertford. Miss it at your peril! www.courtyardarts.org.uk/exhibitions/...
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TEXT & TEXTILE! - courtyardarts.org.uk
The latest collection of works by textile artist Connie Flynn.
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
A triumphant appearance at the Norwich Independent Book and Zine Fair last week. Many keepsakes were printed, new friends were made, and even a few zines created ... Thanks to Gill Renouf, Florence Okoye and Paul W. Nash (@PrOGPaul) for manning the stall.
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
A triumphant week for our Artist in Residence, Lacey Law (#laceylawprints). Three letterpress broadsides and a magnificent woodcut of buzzards at Blickling (only a proof shown here – more images will follow)!
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The museum at Blickling is looking relatively tidy in preparation for the arrival of our second Artist in Residence, Lacey Law (#laceylawstudio), on Monday. We are hoping to make use of that Columbian ...
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Our Artist in Residence, Connie Flynn, has been working towards an exhibition, "Text and Textile", which will be touring the UK in the summer. She will also be taking part in this year's North Norfolk Open Studios (links below). www.facebook.com/events/67944... www.northnorfolkstudios.co.uk
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Work in progress from our Artist in Residence, Connie Flynn. Connie is working toward a social-history-inspired exhibition (and, we hope, a talk at the Museum) combining text and textiles ... You can also see her work in the exhibition "Making the Rounds". www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Artist in Residence, Connie Flynn said, she had so much to consider at NPM on Friday – the type style and size, scale, spacing, paper, colour of ink – too many options. And then SO many ideas that develop from each process. A real learning curve! The exhibition plan is coming together nicely.
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Another productive day for our Artist in Residence, Connie Flynn. If you are in London you can see her textile work in the ’Making the Rounds‘ exhibition which is touring, currently at the Royal College of Nursing ... www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Some early flowers from our Artist in Residence, Connie Flynne, who began to work with our type and presses on Friday. Her work will continue each Friday for the next five weeks.
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
One of the smallest donations to the Museum recently was an example of the text of the Lord's Prayer cast upon a single 12-point (pica) piece of type. You might not be able to see it ... But it is there. It was produced as a promotional curiosity by the Monotype Corporation.
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
We open to the public (at Blickling Hall) on 4 April, and are featured (again) in Art and Culture in Norwich and Norfolk ... www.artinnorwich.org.uk
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ART & CULTURE IN NORWICH & NORFOLK
Art in Norwich
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
One of the smallest presses at the #norwichprintingmuseum is the Adana "Hand Quarto", seen here at last year's Print Party in Norwich. We have two of the presses at the Museum, and an example of an early model, mostly made of wood (possibly by Donald Aspinall, the founder of Adana, himself) ...
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Before and after pictures of a recent bookbinding repair @norwichprintmuseum, made to a copy of "The printers' vade-mecum and ready reference" (1881). Thanks to our wonderful bookbinding volunteers for taking on this work ...
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Recent activity at #NorwichPrintingMuseum. An ugly gnome struggles to cleanse a foul case of 14-point Baskerville in chilly conditions ...
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Recent activity at #NorwichPrintingMuseum. A newly-covered ink-duct-roller for the Vicobold Press ...
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Recent activity at #NorwichPrintingMuseum. A forme for Valentine's Day on the Soldans Press ...
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Join our Trustee Board If you have a passion for the past and present of printing, a love of Norwich, or a desire to help run a working museum with a dedicated team of volunteers, then do consider joining our Board of Trustees. Details may be found at norwichprintingmuseum.co.uk/join-our-tru...
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
A design project takes shape at the Norwich Printing Museum. Julia Watson @juliagraphics_ uses metal and wooden type and quads to make letterforms for her entry into #prhdesignaward for Penguin Books ... Good luck, Julia.
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Emma Hartley @emma1hartley.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Post number two is about what we’re doing at 24hournorwich (and 24hourlondon). Local advertising has always been the business at the heart of local news. Our groundbreaking adware can be an engine for local economic growth @charlottewace.bsky.social 24hour.technology/norwich/arti...
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The Norwich Post or 24hournorwich: A newspaper for Norwich
Norwich gave birth to England’s first local newspaper and this is a picture of its masthead.It was started in 1701, 36 years after the first London newspaper and both were weekly.When the librarian at...
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Fabulous things going on at the Thin Ice Press in York. We can only aspire to this sort of thing ... and we do ... www.thinicepress.org/events
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
A misty day at Blickling Hall, where the Museum is currently in Residence . . . We are open to the public again at the beginning of April, but in the meantime there is much going on behind the scenes, as we work to recruit new Trustees and Volunteers, and to find a new permanent home for the Museum.
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
The search for new premises goes on ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Norwich Printing Museum in a race against the clock to find home
Norwich Printing Museum is looking for a new location after its current lease expires in October.
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
A wonderful Festive letterpress offering from Norwich University of the Arts student, Melanie Surfleet, who we are happy to say has now joined us as a regular volunteer! Seasons Greetings to one and all and we wish you all a wonderful 2025 🎄
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Norwich Printing Museum is looking to recruit a small number of new members for its Board of Trustees. Could you help us? Further details here👇 norwichprintingmuseum.co.uk/join-our-tru...
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Norwich Printing Museum is looking to recruit a small number of new members for its Board of Trustees. Could you help us? Further details here👇 norwichprintingmuseum.co.uk/join-our-tru...
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
A wonderful book project that Norwich University of the Arts student Julia Watson undertook at the museum towards the end of our season. Julia was a natural and managed to set two large blocks of type alongside our compositors. We look forward to more collaborative residencies in 2025!
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
Join us on 2nd September for a Study Day! Independent type-designer Jeremy Tankard will describe his working methods and philosophy in creating new fonts. New theories on early type-production will be discussed by Jack Norfolk & our very own Dr Paul W Nash. norwichprintingmuseum.co.uk/events
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
Joe is a final year student from Norwich University of the Arts who recently spent a lot of his spare time at the Museum to create work for his final assessment. It was an absolute joy to work with him and a few letterpress 'rules' were broken but the results were simply stunning!
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 02/06/2024
An excellent day was had at @greatwarhuts.bsky.social yesterday, where we joined forces to talk about the trench newspaper The Wipers Times! A huge thank you to everyone who came along 🤗
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 11/05/2024
This incredible photo was taken at the National Trust’s Blickling Estate last night! Did you spot the Northern Lights too? 📸 Kenny Gray
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
A wonderful day spent with students from Norwich University of the Arts with lots of experimental typesetting and hands on printing! 📄
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
Bill Bailey’s Master Crafters for Sky Arts need Letterpress Printers! They are looking for new students, trainees, and apprentices - of any age - who are displaying early signs of talent and passion in Letterpress Printing! Please see application details in the poster below 👇
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Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
Happy #InternationalWomensDay  Today we pay tribute to women printmakers, such as Tirzah Garwood, whose woodcuts continue to inspire. Let's celebrate her legacy, and the countless other women, who have made invaluable contributions to the world of printmaking and beyond!
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