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Musée Gutenberg, Fribourg, Technology museum in Fribourg, Switzerland.

The Musée Gutenberg occupied the former Kornhaus Derrière-Notre-Dame at Place Notre-Dame 14–16, northeast of the Liebfrauenkirche and east of the Tinguely Museum. The building has two parts: a 1523–1527 grain store by Peter Ruffinger on 13th-century foundations, and a 16th-century rectangular annex with a hipped roof. Its cellars are of rough fieldstone, upper floors of sandstone blocks, and the east wall forms part of the city wall. The museum closed in autumn 2022; since December 2023 the collection has been shown at Enter Technikwelt Solothurn in Derendingen.

Founded in 1900, in the same year as the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz and on the 500th anniversary of Gutenberg's birth, the museum spent over a century in Bern's Kornhaus. In autumn 2000, the year Gutenberg's printing was named "invention of the millennium", it moved into Fribourg's former Kornhaus Derrière-Notre-Dame. The city claimed the building, and the museum closed in autumn 2022; since December 2023 the collection has been shown at Enter Technikwelt Solothurn in Derendingen.

Fribourg had only one typographic workshop from the beginnings of printing until the last state-supervised printer in 1816. Peter Canisius, resident from 1580, pushed the founding of both a library and a press; the first printer, Abraham Gemperlin, worked 1585–1597. The collection is shown since December 2023 in the Enter Technikwelt Solothurn in Derendingen.

The museum closed in autumn 2022 because the city of Fribourg wanted the building; the collection has been shown since December 2023 at Enter Technikwelt Solothurn in Derendingen. The former Kornhaus stands at Place Notre-Dame / Liebfrauenplatz 14–16, northeast of the Liebfrauenkirche and east of the Tinguely Museum, where the town drops about 40 metres to the Sarine.

The museum closed in autumn 2022 because the city wanted the building, the former Kornhaus Derrière-Notre-Dame. Since December 2023 the collection has been shown at Enter Technikwelt Solothurn in Derendingen. The attic had displayed the history of Swiss paper money printing.

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1900
Official opening
2000
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Wheelchair accessible
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46.80732,7.16175
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