Visited the Print Museum yesterday. It’s in Beggars Bush Barracks, Haddington Road. Hang a left after the Schoolhouse. It’s small but they have some nice machines used in printing history the past few decades.
There’s a guided or unguided tour. In fairness the place is quite small, you can look around in 30 minutes or so but it’s still worth a journey. They also do what look like very interesting workshops that I never have time to get to.
This is the plate for the last edition for the Sunday Press:
Also outside, we have cannons spiked into the ground:
Not to sound too curmudgeonly but this is one of Dublin’s real gems.
They keep this one quiet! Thanks for the heads up, definitely going to check it out.
Nice find – fingers crossed I’ll get around to a visit and some workshopping too.
I’m a foreigner but I visited this museum in December 07 🙂 .
I guess it’s not only a museum marketing error, you have to have something in common with the print industry to know about it.
Nice find! I don’t know about the rest of you but it’s news to me that we also have a butter museum!! http://www.corkbutter.museum/
I studied letterpress and printmaking with Sean Sils as part of my Vis Comm course way back in college – I’d definitely recommend people give the course a go – it requires a huge amount of patience and is very laborious, but the end result is fantastic – it has such an amazing, tangible quality about it.
I was living just around the corner for nearly a year before I realised the museum was there – it’s a great afternoon visit.
My mother gives classes in etching and other fine art printmaking here. They have a whole programme of events they run. It is a lovely place.
And they’d love someone to set them up a blog, I happen to know.
Old. 🙂
http://tcal.net/archives/2004/11/26/the-national-print-museum/