PRINTING MUSEUMS -- Graphic Arts Get-aways

Also, Ben Franklin meets group visitors in the Museum's Heritage Theatre where he helps bring to life his many inventions and discoveries, telling stories of colonial America and his work in helping to found our country.

If you are taking a visit to our nation's capital, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History has "The Hall of Printing and Graphic Arts," which features tools and equipment of the trade, a print shop and post office, circa 1800; a print shop, circa 1865; a newspaper shop, circa the 1880s; and a foundry from the mid-19th century.