IN HONOR OF KOREA 2022 Special Joint Exhibition with the Member of the IAPM Treasures from the Klingspor Museum September 2 – October 16, 2022 Gallery 3, Culture Factory Cheongju, Republic of Korea Introduction The Klingspor Museum in Offenbach, one of the most renowned museums of typography and book art, presented itself in Cheongju - the city where the Jikji, the oldest surviving book printed by movable metal types, was published. In 2021, the city of Cheongju invited the members of the International Association of Printing Museums (IAPM) to submit proposals for a special exhibition for the 2022 JIKJI Festival. The Klingpor Museum was selected as the finalist and worked closely with the Cheongju Early Printing Museum on the joint organization of the exhibition. To express its gratitude and friendship with Korea, the Klingspor Museum presented some of its nest collections in the arrangement of the Korean flag. As a guest in Cheongju, the Klingspor Museum expressed its great respect for the special tradition of the city, which, with the Book of Jikji (created in 1377), can claim world significance for the history of the art of printing. The Klingspor Museum, for its part, is an internationally renowned address for this very subject. It is based on the type foundry Gebrüder (Brothers) Klingspor, which gave impetus to the promotion of the art of lettering in the first half of the 20th century. The invitation to this exhibition was extended by the International Association of Printing Museums (IAPM) together with the Early Printing Museum in Cheongju. The aim is to stimulate international exchange on the history and future of the art of writing and printing. Museums and libraries around the world are working to preserve the knowledge of the historical art of graphic communication and offer themselves as forums for today's protagonists, old and young alike, who still practice the use of original graphic techniques as a current quality of manifestati

News from Printing Museum, Tokyo in Japan Printing Museum, Tokyo published two books, History of Japanese Printing Culture and Printing Museum Collection as the 20th anniversary project. These books will be sent to the IAPM member facilities soon. If you have any comments or requests, please contact Noriko Maehara (maehara@printing-museum.org) at the Printing Museum, Tokyo.

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The Gutenberg Museum, an IAPM member since 2018, has initiated a very meaningful step toward preservation of traditional craft and printing techniques. Please support this initiative by becoming a signatory to the "Mainz Impulse". More information can be found at www.gutenberg-museum.de and www.mainzer-impuls.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Yesterday to Tomorrow The Mainz Impulse – An Appeal by Annette Ludwig The fact that the preservation, research, communication and promotion of basic cultural techniques is based much on the initiative and commitment of institutions, associations and individuals has a long tradition in Germany. The graphic arts industry, which had to cope with an unparalleled structural break in the 1970s and 1980s with the transition from lead type to phototypesetting, is particularly affected by these dependencies. Even though the problem has been lamented in public time and again since then and its irreversible consequences have been clearly noted, it must be stated: Across Europe, there are only a few micro-enterprises left that can apply – with trained skilled workers and meaningful commissions – relevant craft techniques and pass them on authentically. This dramatic loss of material as well as immaterial knowledge from the lead era also manifests itself in the workshops of the Gutenberg Museum, the cradle of European letterpress printing, which already bears the obligation to preserve a cultural heritage of some 570 years in its name – even if its responsible body, the state capital Mainz, unfortunately still does not officially, but sporadically and on occasion, trade as Gutenberg City to draw attention to the outstanding significance of Johannes Gutenberg and the position of the "World Museum of Letterpress Printing

The IAPM Office is very excited to announce that the new IAPM website is launched. This is something that we have long wanted to develop. Especially during this time of global pandemic where traveling options and face-to-face meetings are limited, an online platform has become more essential than ever before. The new website still has a long way to go until it becomes more active-- Please feel free to contact the IAPM Office to submit news, events, articles of your organization!