TYPA letterpress and paper art centre — Attraction in Tartu linn

Interesting and quite large museum about printing history. You can see impressive amount of printing and bookmaking machinery. Museum visitors get guided tour for the ticket, where full process of printing is explained from paper making till book binding. Also all printing and binding mashinery are explained during the tour. You get to see the machines from really clouse. The tour lasts about an hour. Museum offeres several cool printing workshops. For most workshops you need to preorder by contacting Typa museum. The workshops are for various skill level, from pre-school till grownups. Museum has little cute souvenir shop at front desk. You can buy printed poducts and some candy...

This was a nice surprise and I recommend this museum, if you have 1h to spare in Tartu.

It's located near the "hipster centrum" - Aparaaditehas - in Tartu and at first glance, it's more like a small workshop. I initially felt that the 8EUR adult ticket for a small museum would be too expensive.

But - turns out this is not a museum where you look at things, but a hands-on museum. A lovely lady named Mirjam gave my wife and me a 40min private tour - we got to make a sheet of paper, try a printing press and actually touch most of the machines in the workshop.

I really liked the passion and enthusiasm of the people who are trying to do old-school printwork in...

This was my "must see" of the day. The staff gave me a tour of the museum, accompanied by one of their resident artists. She shared the history of paper, from papyrus to recycled paper and then gave me then hands on opportunity to make a sheet. The paper portion of the tour also showed some examples of how paper is used for art.

The printing portion of the tour traced the history from hand-rolling ink to hand-operated and then powered printing machines. All of the machines are still used - in part to keep them operating and in part to keep...