Gutenberg Museum

The town where European printing with movable type began, and the museum that tells the story best. Its old building is closed for a rebuild, so the collection now runs as Gutenberg Museum MOVED in the former convent of St Clare, home of the Natural History Museum. The draw is a dark, walk-in treasure chamber holding two of the museum's own Gutenberg Bibles, the Shuckburgh and Solms-Laubach copies. Only 49 of an estimated 180 printed copies survive. Upstairs there are printing demonstrations and a print shop, so the page and the press that made it sit under one roof. The page pictured is a modern reprint pulled in the museum's print shop before the move, the kind of sheet the demonstrations produce.