- Address: Vrijdagmarkt 22-23, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
- Phone: +32 3 221 14 50
- Working hours: daily 10: 00-17: 00, closed on Monday
- Official site: museumplantinmoretus.be
- Cost of visiting: € 8
Among the lanes of Antwerp, not far from the embankment of the Esko River, is the Museum of Planten-Moretus, which is dedicated to the life and work of the famous typographers of the 16th-17th century. It was Christopher Plantin and Jan Moretus who turned the favorite occupation into one of the industries.
Museum building
The uniqueness of the Planten-Moretus Museum is not only in a rich collection. The building is designed in the Flemish Renaissance style, therefore in itself is a valuable architectural object. The museum complex includes:
- The house, whose facades were overgrown with thick ivy;
- The colonnade behind which the central entrance is hidden;
- directly the printing house itself.
In the courtyard of the museum complex a small garden is broken, which contrasts with the ancient facing of buildings. The interior space of the Planten-Moretus Museum is decorated with elements of that era: wooden panels with leather inserts, gold embossing, luxurious tapestries, paintings and engravings.
Museum collection
Currently, the Plantene-Moretus Museum has collected a collection that includes the following exhibits:
- printing presses of the XVI century, which are still in working order;
- ancient fonts;
- antique furniture;
- cartographic globes;
- old printed atlases;
- paintings by Rubens;
- a large collection of books.
The most famous book publications, stored in the Museum of Plantin Moretus in Antwerp , is the Bible in five languages and the fifteenth-century manuscript, entitled The Chronicles of Jean Froissart. Here you can also find archives and accounting books that belonged to Christopher Plantin. In total, the library of the museum has more than 30 thousand books.
How to get there?
The Plantin-Moretus Museum in Belgium is located almost on the banks of the Esko River, next to the Sint-Annatunnel canal. You can reach it by bus route No.34, 291, 295, following the Antwerpen Sint-Jansvliet stop. At 300 meters from the museum is the tram stop Antwerpen Premetrostation Groenplaats, which can be reached by route 3, 5, 9 or 15.
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