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FYI France: places bookish, in Europe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Kessler)
Wed Jul 16 20:00:40 2003
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FYI France: places bookish, in Europe
A very happy day-after-Bastille-Day to all, and a reminder that
the Institut d'Histoire du Livre still is very much in business,
in Lyon -- its excellent facilities available online to anyone in
reach of Internet access who is looking for book-related places
and activities in France --
http://ihl.enssib.fr/
For example:
* Itinéraire culturel du livre : Répertoire des musées du livre
en Europe
http://ihl.enssib.fr/icl/icl-interro/icl_interro.php
-- where you can enter the name of any city in France and many
other cities in Europe, which you may be visiting, to obtain
particulars of book and book history-related places to visit and
tour. "Le Puy", for example, obtains, with a nice photo of the
paper mill tour,
* Moulin du verger
BP 07
16400 Puymoyen
Tél: +33 (0)5 45 61 10 38
Fax : +33 (0)5 45 61 68 08
URL : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/musee.imprim.aquitaine
E-mail : mailto:museeimprim.aquitaine@wanadoo.fr
"Just south of Angoulême, the Moulin du Verger has been
in operation since 1539. Rebuilt in 1635, it is listed in
the Inventaire des Monuments Historiques and pursues its
work in handcrafted papers, work which for 20 years has
been oriented primarily toward the production of ancient
paper varieties. It offers visits and demonstrations in
the history of paper-making, and in the arts of
book-binding and restoration. This is neither a museum
nor a conservatory but a working enterprise." [tr. JK]
Date de création : 1635
Superficie : 500 m2
moulin à papier
Sujet(s) : papier
Ouverture : toute la semaine
lundi-vendredi 9.00-12.00 / 14.00-18.00,
samedi-dimanche 15.00-18.00
Accueil : Visites guidées; Stages, ateliers
Accès : Parking à proximité
-- and "Bordeaux" retrieves similar entries for,
* Maison des métiers de l'imprimerie
10 rue du Fort-Louis
33800 Bordeaux
"A museum dedicated to the book industry, presenting the
methods and techniques of workers in the book-making
craft from the 19th century to modern times, as well as
lithography and book-binding." [tr. JK]
Date de création : 1980
Superficie : 1 100 m2
(etc.)
-- and,
* Musée Goupil, Conservatoire de l'image industrielle
20 cours Pasteur
33000 Bordeaux
Date de création : 1991
"This municipal museum, which is devoted to the
industrial multiplication of the image in the 19th
century, also evokes the history of taste and attitudes
and the international development of the market for art.
Over 100,000 objects, including copper prints,
lithography stones, glass plate negatives, presses,
prints, photographs, illustrated works and reviews, as
well as the archives of the Maison Goupil firm, are in
the collection. In addition to the documentary riches
regarding official art and the techniques of reproduction
of the 19th century, an original feature of the
collection is the offering of a vision of the complete
chain of production: from matrices (presses and
engravings, glass plates) up to the final work (print or
photography), passing through all the intermediate steps
(working models, proofs...). [tr. JK]
(etc.)
-- and in Barcelona,
* Archives municipales
* Bibliothèque de l'Université de Barcelone / Réserve
-- or Rome,
* Bibliothèque nationale centrale de Rome
* Biblioteca Casanatense
-- or Manchester,
* Musée des sciences et de l'industrie de Manchester
-- Bruxelles,
* Musée du Livre -- Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique
* La Maison du Livre
* Musée de la maison d'Erasme
* La Chalcographie
-- Amsterdam,
* Bibliothèque de l'Université d'Amsterdam
* Musée de la Bible
* Musée de la presse
* Bibliotheca philosophica hermetica (JR Ritman Library)
-- Leipzig,
* Musée de l'imprimerie de Leipzig
-- and many more...
So, if you will be in Europe, this Summer or Fall -- or if you
will be wishing you'll be -- any trip, real or "virtual", can be
enhanced by a visit to IHL's Itinéraire Culturel du Livre. If
books and printing and the history thereof are your personal
fascination, just plug in the city name and presto / voilà.
Bonnes vacances.
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