Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex
The Plantin-Moretus Museum is a printing plant and
publishing house dating from the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Situated in Antwerp, one of the three leading cities of early European
printing along with Paris and Venice, it is associated with the history
of the invention and spread of typography. Its name refers to the
greatest printer-publisher of the second half of the 16th century:
Christophe Plantin (c. 1520–89). The monument is of outstanding
architectural value. It contains exhaustive evidence of the life and
work of what was the most prolific printing and publishing house in
Europe in the late 16th century. The building of the company, which
remained in activity until 1867, contains a large collection of old
printing equipment, an extensive library, invaluable archives and works
of art, among them a painting by Rubens.