"The Plantin-Moretus Museum is a printing plant and publishing house
dating from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Situated in Antwerp,
one of the three leading cities of early European printing along with
Paris and Venice, it is associated with the history of the invention and
spread of typography. Its name refers to the greatest printer-publisher
of the second half of the 16th century: Christophe Plantin (c.
1520–89). The monument is of outstanding architectural value. It
contains exhaustive evidence of the life and work of what was the most
prolific printing and publishing house in Europe in the late 16th
century. The building of the company, which remained in activity until
1867, contains a large collection of old printing equipment, an
extensive library, invaluable archives and works of art, among them a
painting by Rubens." -http://whc.unesco.org
A surprise postcard from fellow postcard collector Johan who also maintains a great blog on postcards: http://www.johanpostcards.blogspot.com
Thank you so much Johan for increasing my UNESCO WHS collection from Belgium!
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