Type Museum

About Type Museum

Established in 1992, the Type Museum's first ten years saw the creation of a collection of international importance. Established in 1992, the Type Museum's first ten years saw the creation of a collection of international importance. Since 1995 the collection has been housed in Stockwell, in a range of industrial buildings built between 1895 and 1905 as a veterinary hospital. Our mission is to collect, preserve and interpret the historic artefacts associated with the spread of the printed word and image, throughout the world, and to place them in the context of modern technology and design and of the far longer history of mankind's use of graphic symbols.