PRINTING MUSEUMS -- Graphic Arts Get-aways

Museums that focus on the history of printing are located all around the country. Some are small displays at local newspapers or printing companies. Others are large-scale museums that take visitors from the earliest days of printed communication up to today's digital world.

"Most of our visitors are not people with printing backgrounds," reveals Sarah McNett, curator at the Museum of Printing History in Houston. "The majority of our visitors come through as group tours—grade school groups, university level groups (which tend to be art/graphic arts students), senior citizen groups and community groups—that also use our meeting space, or host parties or receptions in the museum."