The House of Words


The House of Words – museum of typography in Poland, is a multimodal education center. It familiarizes audience with poetry and art, old techniques of printing, and the history and achievements of Lublin printing industry.
Located at Żmigród 1 Street in Lublin, inside Pociej's Palace.

Mission

According to its statement: the programme of the House of Words is structured around the meaning of written word in cultural and social contexts. Thus institution became an enabler and a new SME in the field of written word and literature.

Foundations

Museum has been placed in pre-war printing house "Popularna", which operated since 1932. Before World War II, authors like Józef Czechowicz and Józef Łobodowski were among its customers. During the occupation 1939-1944 there were illegal brochures printed. As the effect of an informer activity in the March of 1944, Germans have arrested fourteen printers of "Popularna". They were shoot at Majdanek Concentration Camp on the 3rd of June 1944.
Post war, the printing house became a property of the state, and its user Labor Co-operative "Intrograf", in 1972 has established there a Chamber of Traditional Lublin Printing.

Currently

The Chamber of Polish Printing Memory has been re-opened on the 6th of May 2008, driven by "Brama Grodzka – Teatr NN" . The Center has taken over the building in 2006 and fixed it, historic printing machines were also repaired, and can be presently operated. Chamber of Printing besides its permanent exhibitions, presents variety of temporary exhibitions, and leads artistic and educational workshops for youth audience.