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Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum, Two Rivers, WI

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Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum

A Two Rivers, Wisconsin museum devoted to preserving and printing with wood type for letterpress work.

1816 10th Street, Two Rivers, Wisconsin 54241 · Two Rivers, WI

About Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum

The museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, is dedicated to keeping wood type and letterpress printing alive. Its collection holds well over a million wood type pieces spread across more than a thousand styles, along with presses and vintage prints. Visitors can watch type-making equipment at work, print on the museum's collection, see changing gallery exhibits, and browse a shop selling prints and newly cut type. The museum also runs workshops, classes, and events, and it welcomes group visits by arrangement. It occupies a factory building that once belonged to the Hamilton Manufacturing Company.

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  • #letterpress
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