Pressroom of the Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp

This is the real thing rather than a reconstruction: the pressroom of the Officina Plantiniana, the firm Christophe Plantin founded in 1555 and his descendants, the Moretus family, ran until 1876. Its row of wooden hand presses stands where the pressmen worked them, with type cases, drying lines and lattice windows around them. Among them are two presses from around 1600, which the museum calls the oldest surviving printing presses in the world. They no longer print, but other presses in the room still work. The house and workshops became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005, and no other place shows so completely how a big early printing business ran.