Nationaal
Museum van de
Speelkaart, BE
Druivenstraat 18, 2300 Turnhout,
Belgium
contact
person:
Filip
Cremers
tel. +32.14.415621,
fax +32.14.414324
email filip.cremers@turnhout.be
This
is the ‘museum
of playing-cards’,
a public institution
hosting collections
of playing-cards
from 1700-onwards
made for world-wide
distribution,
a unique collection
of printing
presses and
finishing machines
(17th-20th century),
a steam-engine
(1896), archives
and a reference
library.
Its
mission
is to collect,
conserve, study,
exhibit and
educate about
objects regarding
the history,
use and production
of playing-cards,
mainly printed
in Turnhout
and the historical
Low Countries
during the industrial
age (18th century
onwards).
The
museum services
include:
temporary exhibitions,
workshops for
demonstrations
(i.e. printing
techniques),
lectures, trading
sessions (collectors),
publications,
and educational
activities for
children etc.
Through its
activities the
museum aims
to stimulate
a more active
way of visiting
by its public.
It also
aims to develop
children’s
interactive
learning
and enjoyment
in the field
of scientific,
technological
and cultural
evolution in
printing techniques.
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