Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum

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Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum is a working museum, print shop, gallery & shop in Two Rivers, WI. Join us for a workshop or to see the world's largest collection of wood type.

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The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. With 1.5 million pieces of wood type and more than 1,000 styles and sizes of patterns, Hamilton's collection is one of the premier wood type collections in the world. In addition to wood type, the Museum is home to an amazing array of advertising cuts from the 1930s through the 1970s, and all of the equipment necessary to make wood type and print with it, as well as equipment used in the production of hot metal type, tools of the craft and rare type specimen catalogs.

Hamilton staff host educational demonstrations, field trips, workshops and offer opportunities for artists, printers, historians and other scholars to experiment with this vast wood type collection. Self guided tours are available anytime during our regular business hours. Guided tours of the museum are provided at 1 and 3 pm daily. Please contact the museum at [email protected] or (920) 794-6272 for more information or to schedule a group visit.