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Public Printing Tour

The Printing Museum 3121 San Jacinto St., Houston, TX, United States

Be a Printer for a Day! Join a Public Printing Tour. Join TPM Artist-in-Residence Charles Criner on a hands-on tour of printing history. During your guided tour, you will learn of early forms of printing, participate in the hands-on printing of a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible pulled from a replica press, print a copy […]

Public Printing Tour

The Printing Museum 3121 San Jacinto St., Houston, TX, United States

Be a Printer for a Day! Join a Public Printing Tour. Join TPM Artist-in-Residence Charles Criner on a hands-on tour of printing history. During your guided tour, you will learn of early forms of printing, participate in the hands-on printing of a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible pulled from a replica press, print a copy […]

Public Printing Tour

The Printing Museum 3121 San Jacinto St., Houston, TX, United States

Be a Printer for a Day! Join a Public Printing Tour. Join TPM Artist-in-Residence Charles Criner on a hands-on tour of printing history. During your guided tour, you will learn of early forms of printing, participate in the hands-on printing of a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible pulled from a replica press, print a copy […]

Specimen Box Making

The Printing Museum 3121 San Jacinto St., Houston, TX, United States

Need a box to hold your freshly printed postcards, stationary, book, or other specialty item? Boxmaking requires many of the same techniques as bookbinding to measure, construct, and cover, but is modified to create open structures. Come learn how to make a custom, partitioned, cloth-covered, hinged box. Bring 4 or 5 small items that are […]

$80

Public Printing Tour: Moms Day

The Printing Museum 3121 San Jacinto St., Houston, TX, United States

Treat Mom to an experience she'll never forget! To celebrate Mothers Day, all moms receive FREE admission for the 2 p.m. Public Printing Tour. Reservations are encouraged by calling 713-522-4652.

Public Printing Tour

The Printing Museum 3121 San Jacinto St., Houston, TX, United States

Be a Printer for a Day! Join a Public Printing Tour. Join TPM Artist-in-Residence Charles Criner on a hands-on tour of printing history. During your guided tour, you will learn of early forms of printing, participate in the hands-on printing of a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible pulled from a replica press, print a copy […]

The TPM Listening Tour

The Printing Museum 3121 San Jacinto St., Houston, TX, United States

Throughout 2016, The TPM Listening Tour will gather together groups of Museum Board members, staff, volunteers, supporters, Museum Members, and the general public, to informal, small group conversations with the Museum’s executive director, Mark Osborne. Beginning Saturday, May 14, at 10 a.m., The Listening Tour conversations will take place at The Printing Museum in its […]

Letterpress Business Cards

The Printing Museum 3121 San Jacinto St., Houston, TX, United States

Learn the basics of setting type by hand and letterpress printing using the table-top platen press, still widely available on the market. Learn the california job case, set type, use a pica ruler and composing stick, mix ink, ink the press and print. Each student will set and print his or her own business card. […]

$105

Public Printing Tour

The Printing Museum 3121 San Jacinto St., Houston, TX, United States

Be a Printer for a Day! Join a Public Printing Tour. Join TPM Artist-in-Residence Charles Criner on a hands-on tour of printing history. During your guided tour, you will learn of early forms of printing, participate in the hands-on printing of a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible pulled from a replica press, print a copy […]

Memorial Day – Museum Closed

The Printing Museum 3121 San Jacinto St., Houston, TX, United States

The Museum will be closed on Monday, May 30, 2016, in observance of Memorial Day. We will re-open on Tuesday, May 31, 2016, at 10 a.m.