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Online exhibition in the Rhineland-Palatinate cultural heritage portal "Cross-Wheel-Lion"

Cross wheel lion

With the launch of Rhineland-Palatinate's cultural heritage portal "Kreuz-Rad-Löwe," the Gutenberg Museum is presenting a new online exhibition. Under the title "Under the Magnifying Glass: The Mainz Gutenberg Bibles," stories and special features of the Gutenberg Bibles are presented in detail. Users can find information about the museum's Gutenberg Bibles and Gutenberg's inventions. "Kreuz-Rad-Löwe" aims to make cultural assets in Rhineland-Palatinate visible and accessible in an interactive and digital way.

Browse the Gutenberg Bibles online with Gutenberg Capture

Working on the computer
Working on the computer

Following a successful digitization campaign involving several project partners, users can now browse through the Gutenberg Bibles online in the "Gutenberg Capture" portal at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

Time travel Gutenberg

Time travel Johannes Gutenberg

A journey through the life and work of Johannes Gutenberg can be found on the information portal www.gutenberg.de. The portal is edited by the state capital of Mainz.


Join-in video series: Printing and bookbinding

Video: Potato printing

Our interactive video series invites you to try your hand at printing and book design. Short video clips show you step by step how you can achieve exciting results using simple materials and printing techniques.


Video series: "Briefly explained"

This new video series from the Gutenberg Museum explains various craft techniques. Our new book conservator Dorothea Müller kicked things off. She restored an old atlas and explained the individual steps involved in book restoration.
More videos will follow!

PRINTING like Gutenberg! Analog printing demonstration digital: Printing like Gutenberg

In this video, we show the main attraction of the Gutenberg Museum: the printing demonstration on the Gutenberg press in the reconstructed Gutenberg workshop. The entire printing process is shown, from type casting to typesetting. The demonstrations take place hourly in the Gutenberg Museum and are included in the museum admission price.

Digital tour through our special exhibitions

The Instagram channel of the Gutenberg Museum

The Gutenberg Museum's special exhibitions are shared and explored in greater depth on social media through our digital tours on Instagram and Facebook. Additional content and background information, such as questions to the participating artists about the concept behind their exhibition projects, provide exciting insights behind the scenes.


#drucklust despite lockdown: video series with (print) artists

In our video series, artists associated with the Gutenberg Museum through workshops and exhibition projects talk about their work during the coronavirus pandemic. The selfie videos offer an authentic insight into the artists' workshops and studios and show that #drucklust is still possible despite lockdown.

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