Demers, Gutenberg, Franklin Museum

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Discover the legacy of Gutenberg, Franklin, and the printed word.

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Tour Map

Museum map 1
  1. Museum Main Entrance / Emergency exit
  2. Wooden Gutenberg mini 1500’s copy
  3. Admission. Photos allowed
  4. “PINK IN INK” Woman’s dream
  5. 1st Multilith 1936 model 1211 offset press
  6. Mind your P’s and Q’s
  7. Vending snacks
  8. From 1880’s print library
  9. Audio Video Hall, 10 minute museum preview, sit down
  10. Music Rockpack classics 70’s-80’s
  11. Life of Johan Gutenberg
  12. Life of Benjamin Franklin
  13. “HANDS ON” Rock Cave, Cave People
  14. “HANDS ON” Chinese Paper Making 5000 years ago
  15. Todays Paper Making USA Giants, video, sit down
  16. Optional “HANDS ON” Monks and Scribes
  1. Optional “HANDS ON” Proof presses, Manual and Electric 1888
  2. Blood, revolution, protests
  3. Optional “HANDS ON” Gutenberg’s invention of moveable set type 1450’s
  4. Optional “HANDS ON” Numbering machines
  5. Thomas Edison, invention of lite bulb 1879
  6. Electric Motor invention patented 1888, 1891 on display
  7. Movie Cameras from 1918
  8. Projectors 1890’s
  9. Paper cutters no motors, pre 1900’s (manual)
  10. Typewriters, manual 1892, and electric
  11. Mimeographs 1896, Thomas Edison
  12. Morse code, Samuel Morse 1850’s remember “Titanic”
  13. Ben Franklin Era, old hand fed platen presses 1800’s
  14. Letterpress Cylinders / stamper MID 1800’s
  15. Optional “HANDS ON” Build-U-own 16 page book, “TAKE U BOOK HOME”
  16. Antique Bindery, Bookbinding 1880’s
  1. Demers World of printing
  2. “Thank you” Valley Tech High School, Upton, Mass 1975
  3. Multilith - “HEIDELBERG KORA”
  4. Early age of Offset Litho Presses from 1936’s, ATF, Heidelberg, Davidson, ABDick, Hamada. Donate
  5. Future Exhibit
  6. Braille, Louis Braille
  7. Early phones rotary 1890’s, cell phones
  8. Computer Age 1984 macintosh - plus
  9. Fax machines
  10. Clocks / Radios
  11. Copiers, electrostatics, Xerox’s 1920’s
  12. Polaroids, 1st Cameras
  13. Currency, Counterfeit detection
  14. Future Exhibit
  15. Manual paper cutters, non motorized MID 1800’s
  16. 3-D printing
  1. Sewing Binding Machines
  2. Heidelberg Technical Library
  3. World Library technical manual parts
  4. Donations, Machines, Bibles, etc. Donate Yours
  5. Bibles, originals, Books. Donate yours
  6. Ben Franklin Era old original screw presses metal 1800’s
  7. Columbian screw press 1837 London, England
  8. Optional “DRESS UP” photo as Gutenberg “Print HANDS ON”
  9. Gutenberg Ben Franklin Era MAIN EXHIBIT Floor
  10. Original Early Type setters, non electric
  11. 1814 Alois Senefelder 1st Litho copy
  12. Optional “HANDS ON” Wooden Gutenberg Era 1450’s fabrications
  13. 1462 GUTENBERG BIBLE, 2 copies
  14. Standing presses 1800’s
  15. Emergency Museum exit
  16. Gift Shop
  17. Main exit / Emergency exit