This Press Museum is installed in the building where in 1605/6 was printed the newspaper "Niewe Tydinjhen", considered one of the first world newspaper. That museum is installed in the Abraham Verhoeven`s house who was an engraver, printer and journalist. In 1605, the duke Alberto and Isabel gives him the privilege of printing a newspaper with prohibition of criticise the Spanish politic, the Catholic Church or the foreign royal courts.

Established in the old and famous "Plantin House" the Plantin-Moretus Museum is one of the most curious and rich world museums.

It belongs to the Antwerp city council and results of the purchase of old workshop and collections to the descending of Christopher Plantin, Edward Moretus, in 1876.

Since 1867 the printing office stopped work hading its last printing book in 1866: Horae Diurnae S. Francisci. Behind stared three centuries of work.

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Placed in open Odense Cultural Centre in a Denmark Island, those museums work interconnected in the same building of an old textile factory. The Printing Arts Museum opened in 1984 and the Press Museum was integrated in the same space in 1989. Until today the Press Museum had an unstable existence since its establishment in 1957.

This is a live space where old printers and graphic artists done several works during the public visits. Sometimes it is made special shows about different subjects.

Installed in Nantes Mediateca building the press museum joined a conjunct of value pieces, being the most ancients reported to 17th century manual setting-up type. The museum was opened is December 1986.

The museum visitor can see old printers working with same exhibit machines. In the museum biggest rooms are presented several printing technicians and in other spaces we could see different engraves types, binding process and press offices documents.

Placed in the old city of Mainz, not far away from the place where were printed the first books, the World-wide Press Museum, known as Gutenberg Museum opened in 1962.

The museums rebuild Gutenberg printing time, showing one wood Press builder with original fragments of the father of movable printing press.

This Portuguese museum is in installation stage. It is placed in an ancient factory in the Right side of Douro river, near "Palácio do Freixo", a Nazoni architectural jewel.

The first stage project, that implies 1.500 m2, was open in 4th April 1997. The project is an initiative of the AMI - Associaçăo Museu da Imprensa established in 1989, an institution without lucrative aim.

Since 1989 until the present time the worries was the gathering and preservation of equipment as well as the researches about Printing Arts in Portugal.

This museum opened in 1987 is the only world press museum installed in a convent. Although its story remounts to 1237 the Real Monasterio del Puig de Santa Maria was built in the 16th century. The press museum is integrated in the convent-sanctuary visits system. It is proper the existence of that museum in Valencia because was in that Spanish south-easterly City that Iberian Press begun. The first printing-book in Valencia dates from 1474 and before that there is no acquaintance of another printing-book in Iberian Peninsula. Besides, Valencia was in the half 15th century one of the most populous and important city that peninsula.