Tipoteca Italiana is a private foundation established to promote typography. It is a privileged site for collecting printing typefaces, but not only that. Museum, restoration and printing workshops, classrooms, archive, library, and bookshop are the various realities of the same multifunctional space. The exhibition of machines and documents at the Tipoteca reinforces the meaning, origin, and purpose of the work of type designers and Italian typographers, from the industrial revolution to the present day. It is a natural meeting place between two worlds: that of the “traditional” typography of the past, represented by movable type in lead or wood and historical printing equipment, and the “digital” world of the present, since the knowledge of the expressive power of traditional graphics and printing represents the cultural continuity of an extraordinarily vibrant craft.
Information about Tipoteca Italiana Foundation
Via Canapificio, 3
31041 Cornuda (Treviso)
042386338
info@tipoteca.it
Source: MIBACT
