Demonstration Days at the National Print Museum

Experience the Museum come to life as a volunteer panel of retired printers and compositors demonstrate our collection in action. From the Linotype composing machine to the Wharfdale printing press to the Shaw Pen Ruling machine, witness the incredibly complex technologies that were used for centuries before our modern digital printers.

Learn about the Titan Glockner printing press and the work being done to renovate this machine and bring it back into our working collection.

Meet some of the members of our Skills Transfer Programme, a group of volunteers being trained in the use of selected machines, enabling us to pass on some of the knowledge of our Chapel of compositors and printers to a new generation.

These demonstration events for Heritage Week, celebrating Letterpress Printing as a craft inscribed on the National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage, are funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

Demonstrations are conducted on the ground floor, where visitors will also find the Reception, Museum Shop, permanent exhibition, toilets, and Café. The ground floor is fully accessible to wheelchair users. Entry for wheelchairs is via the Café.

The Museum welcomes guide and service dogs.