Plantin-Moretus Museum
Renaissance printing house and family home holding the two oldest surviving printing presses in the world.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp starts with one small emblem, a hand drawing a circle with golden compasses, and the Latin motto wrapped around it. It follows Christophe Plantin, a French bookbinder working in Antwerp in the fifteen-fifties, on the evening he set out to deliver a leather case ordered by a Spaniard close to the court of Philip the Second. Along the way you'll meet the Moretus family and their childhood friend Peter Paul Rubens.
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