Pelplin Gutenberg Bible at The National Museum

A specially marked path devoted to the medieval culture of the written word will lead visitors through paintings and sculptures that depict books, readers and writers as well as inscriptions in various forms and functions. The presentation will also feature objects that are normally kept in storage and thus are inaccessible to the public. The motifs that they represent will complement the path perfectly.

This extraordinary presentation of one of the first printed books, a key artifact of the development of Western civilization, provokes reflection on how we create, circulate, perceive and receive information today – in an era of digital culture, of omnipresent memes and fake news. Questions of the revolution brought about by Gutenberg’s invention as well as the functioning of early prints (until the mid-1500s) will be explored in essays published on the Digital NMW website.

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