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{{Infobox UNESCO World Heritage Site
| WHS = Plantin–Moretus House–Workshops–Museum Complex
| image = Library of
| image_upright = 1.2
| caption = Library of
| location = [[Antwerp]], [[Belgium]]
| criteria = {{UNESCO WHS type|(ii), (iii), (iv), (vi)}}(ii), (iii), (iv), (vi)
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[[File:Antwerp Belgium Museum-Plantin-Moretus-05.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|View of the courtyard of the museum]]
After Plantin's death it was owned by his son-in-law [[Jan Moretus]]. While most printing concerns disposed of their collections of older type in the eighteenth and nineteenth century in response to changing tastes, the
Four women ran the family-owned
In 1876 Edward Moretus sold the company to the city of [[Antwerp]]. One year later the public could visit the living areas and the printing presses. The collection has been used extensively for research, by historians [[H. D. L. Vervliet]], [[Mike Parker (typographer)|Mike Parker]] and [[Harry Carter (typographer)|Harry Carter]].<ref name="A view of early typography up to about 1600">{{cite book|last1=Carter|first1=Harry|title=A view of early typography up to about 1600|date=2002|publisher=Hyphen|location=London|isbn=9780907259213|edition=Reprinted}}</ref> Carter's son [[Matthew Carter|Matthew]] would later describe this research as helping to demonstrate "that the finest collection of printing types made in typography's golden age was in perfect condition (some muddle aside) [along with] Plantin's accounts and inventories which names the [[Punchcutting|cutters]] of his types."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Drucker|first1=Margaret Re ; essays by Johanna|last2=Mosley|first2=James|title=Typographically speaking : the art of Matthew Carter|date=2003|publisher=Princeton Architectural|location=New York|isbn=9781568984278|page=33|edition=2.}}</ref>
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In 2002 the museum was nominated as [[United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization|UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Site]] and in 2005 was inscribed onto the World Heritage list.
The
and complete sets of dies and matrices, it also has an extensive library, a richly decorated interior and the entire archives of the Plantin business, which were inscribed on [[UNESCO|UNESCO's]] [[Memory of the World Programme]] Register in 2001 in recognition of their historical significance.<ref name=mow>{{cite web|title= Business Archives of the Officina Plantiniana |url= http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=22955&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html | date=2008-05-15 |publisher=UNESCO Memory of the World Programme |access-date=2009-12-11}}</ref> At the end of September 2016, the museum reopened after a thorough renovation and with a new building (with reading room and paper heritage depot) opening onto Holy Ghost Street. The facade of this reading room refers to a letterbox.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Missale Romanum uit 1613 krijgt plekje in Museum Plantin-Moretus| work = [[Het Laatste Nieuws]]| access-date = 2023-11-09| date = 2018-12-07| url = https://www.hln.be/antwerpen/missale-romanum-uit-1613-krijgt-plekje-in-museum-plantin-moretus~ad60f3d0/| language = nl}}</ref>
== Collection ==
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* a [[36-line Bible|36-line Gutenberg Bible]]
* paintings and drawings by [[Peter Paul Rubens]]
* the study of humanist [[Justus Lipsius]] and many of his works<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trabel.com/antwerp-plantin.htm |title=The
* some of the materials used by French type designer and printer [[Robert Granjon]]
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{{Commons category|Museum Plantin-Moretus}}
*[http://www.museumplantinmoretus.be/ Museum Plantin-Moretus]
*[https://artsandculture.google.com/story/qgXxWnOI--kkPg
*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/plantinmoretus/ Pictures from the museum]
*[http://cheeseweb.eu/2011/05/plantinmoretus-printing-museum-antwerp/ A review of the
{{World Heritage Sites in Belgium}}
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