Yesterday, some friends and I took a trip to Mainz. It's only about an hour from our house. We visited the Gutenburg Musuem (Photo above). The musuem itself was an old Roman Emperor's house built in 1653. Reportedly, Goethe, Mozart and Voltaire all stayed there. It is most famous for housing the first monument to Gutenburg in 1827. Gutenburg was the inventor of the printing press and his first printing was 200 editions of the Bible. Only 46 are left. Today it is the "World Museum of Printing".
This is the Gutenberg workshop that had a demonstration of the printing of a Bible page while we were there. The museum has 2 copies of the Bible in a vault and it is in three volumes. They were printed in 1452 -1455. Very old and still in great condition. They had a short film on Gutenburg and lots of printing presses!
This is the Gutenberg workshop that had a demonstration of the printing of a Bible page while we were there. The museum has 2 copies of the Bible in a vault and it is in three volumes. They were printed in 1452 -1455. Very old and still in great condition. They had a short film on Gutenburg and lots of printing presses!
No comments:
Post a Comment