Letterpress museums

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Robert Smail's printing works (National Trust for Scotland)
400 cases of type; five presses, three working; archive of ephemera
Innerleithen, Scottish Borders
Guided tours March to October 2025
https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/robert-smails
Norwich Printing Museum
National Trust Blickling Estate, Norfolk
Reopens April 2025
https://norwichprintingmuseum.co.uk
Amberley Museum, Sussex
Columbian, Linotype (?working), Albion
https://www.amberleymuseum.co.uk
Beamish Museum, County Durham
Small print shop produces posters for the museum
http://www.beamish.org.uk/
Bradford Industrial Museum
Monotype keyboard and caster, plus presses.
Ran letterpress sessions in June 2024
https://bradfordmuseums.org/venue/bradford-industrial-museum
Cambridge Museum of Technology
Second and fourth Sunday of the month, plus steam days
https://www.museumoftechnology.com/printshop
Milton Keynes Museum
Several presses
St Bride Foundation, London


Defunct

Scottish Printing Museum
Coupar Angus nr Perth
Website dead (https://www.coupar-angus.org)
John Jarrold Printing Museum
Norwich
Website dead (http://www.johnjarroldprintingmuseum.org.uk)
has become Norwich Printing Museum
Cockermouth museum