Esbjerg Printing Museum

The Esbjerg Printing Museum is a museum dedicated to printing technology located in Esbjerg, displaying a large collection of printing presses, type-setting machines, and a Linotype from the past century. The building itself dates from 1905 and was originally used to store eggs and butter for export before being converted into a museum.

The museum was established in 1979 and is housed in a 1905 building that originally functioned as a packing facility for agricultural products. The collection was expanded with machinery from the Danish Eickhoff factory, which manufactured printing equipment from the 1890s until the mid-20th century.

The museum shows how printers once worked, with hundreds of lead and wood letters arranged in composing cases that visitors can still see. The Composing Room gives you a sense of how laborious it was to assemble text letter by letter.

The museum is located at Borgergade 6 and offers visitors hands-on opportunities to understand traditional printing techniques. Plan to spend time exploring the machinery and working spaces to get a full sense of how the printing process worked.

The collection includes rare machines from Eickhoff, a Danish manufacturer that designed specialized printing equipment. These Eickhoff devices are hard to find today and show how Denmark was once innovative in printing technology.