Museum Tour - Five Centuries of Printing

An educational adventure for everyone.

An Educational Adventure on the History of Printing springs to life the moment you enter the Historical Crandall Printing Museum...

Step back in time over five centuries! Guests are welcomed by experienced hosts who will personally relate the story of printing or fit each visitor with an audio tape cassette. You will hear voices from the shops of Johannes Gutenberg, Benjamin Franklin, and E. B. Gradin tell of their contributions and each will guide guests through the museum. Visitors will examine hand-made type and feel the heat from molten lead being ladled into a hand type caster during the demonstration of Gutenberg's marvelous invention. The excitement builds as the old model 5 Linotype, regarded by Thomas Edison as the "eighth wonder of the world," clatters and distributes matrices from the mold assembly to the magazine. On the days the linotype is in action you can have your name cast in lead as a souvenir of your visit.