Gutenberg Museum

The Gutenberg Museum, located opposite the cathedral in the old district of Mainz, Germany, is one of the world's oldest printing museums. It is named after Johannes Gutenberg, the Western European creator of printing with a moveable metal type. Printing equipment and samples of printed items from many civilizations are included in the collections.

The Gutenberg Museum's collection of bookplates, or ex-libris, is the most extensive in the Federal Republic of Germany and one of the most important in the world. The collection began in the mid-twentieth century with the donation of a few dozen bookplates and increased significantly in 1963 with the donation of around 50,000 bookplates by Willy Tropp, one of the most notable bookplate collectors of the period. The collection includes bookplates from renowned and notorious people such as Charles Lindbergh, Albert Einstein, Charles Dickens, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Adolf Hitler. The collection now has over 100,000 bookplates.

Location: Liebfrauenplatz 5, Mainz, RP 55116

Website: mainz.de/microsite/gutenberg-museum-en/index.php