Address
20 Farrer Place, Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Opening Hours
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***Due to COVID restrictions the Museum is currently closed***
The Queanbeyan Printing Museum is one of only a handful nationwide and is fully operational, offering a range of restored machines from the 1870s through to 1960s when letterpress printing in Queanbeyan was superseded by electronics and computerised typesetting.
The museum has 12 main sections from hand-set type, through hot-metal production, including a model 14 Lintotype, to a variety of printing presses such as Wharfedale hand-fed press, various platens, proof presses and a Meihle automatic commercial printing press. A complete photographic darkroom is also featured. All machines have been restored to operational mode.
A number of machines came from the "Queanbeyan Age" newspaper. The Age was established in 1860 and ceased production in 2020.
The static displays include tools of trade and memorabilia of a bygone age of the printing profession with photographs and reproductions of The Age front pages on display.
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