Nationaal Museum van de Speelkaart, Turnhout, Belgium
The Playing Card Museum, Turnhout, Belgium
Arrival
Our hosts: Sofie Wilder, Director of archives and museums, City of Turnhout
Our hosts: Filip Cremers, Director of the National Playing Card Museum
Our guardian angels: Els Croenen and Ingrid Rombaut
Our hosts: volunteers at the National Playing Card Museum
Speech time: Paul Van Miert, mayor of Turnhout welcomes the AEPM
Alan Marshall (France), chair of the AEPM
Martial Roulot (France), Filip Cremers, Jacques Driot (Maison de l'imprimerie, Rebais, Belgium), Ahmed Mansour (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt)
Getting acquainted on the Thursday evening. Patrick Goossens, Letter-Kunde (Belgium), Ulrike Koloska (Berlin, Germany) and Katherina Walter, Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany)
Ruth Kirkby, Glasgow School of Art (UK) and Sibalic Slobodanka, Museum of Science and Technology (Serbia)
Colin Clarkson, Cambridge University Library (UK), Young-tack Ho and Sonya Yang, Early Printing Museum, (South Korea)
An evening of Belgian beer and playing cards. Sofie Wilder, Joost Depuyt, Plantin-Moretus Museum (Belgium) and José Francisco Castro, Sociedad Cervantina - Imprenta del don Quijote (Madrid, Spain)
May Tove Nyrud (Norwegian Printing Museum)
John Cornelisse (Endiku Pers (Netherlands) with Fernande Nicaise and Sabrina Saunière, Musée de l'imprimerie et de la communication graphique (France)
Hans van Eijk (Belgium) and Mats Larsson, Gramus (Sweden)
Zahra Benkass, AMI Atelier-musée de l'imprimerie (France) and Christelle Fort, Les jardins typographiques (France)
Ruth Kirkby, Glasgow School of Art (UK) and Yao Yu Sun, TypesettingSG (Singapore)
The Mayor on a winning streak at the blackjack table. (It was also election weekend!)
Uwe Breker, World Center of Global Communication - Auction Team Breker (Germany)
A full house for the conference
Susanne Richter, Museum für Druckkunst, Leipzig, Germany
Richard Ardagh, The Type Archive, London (UK)
Katherina Walter, Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany)
Mana Kaasik, Estonian Printing Museum (Estonia)
Maartin Kentgens, Nederland Steendrukmuseum, Valkenswaard (Netherlands)
Patrick Goossens, Letter-Kunde, Antwerp (Belgium)
Henk Hanneman, Peter-Louis Vrijdag and Martin Kentgens of the Nederlands Steendrukmuseum (Netherlands) with Alan Marshall (France)
Arkadiusz Rogozinski and Pawel Tryzo, Book Art Museum, Lodz (Poland)
The Friday evening dinner. Young-tack Ho and Sonya Yang from the Early Printing Museum (South Korea) with Ronald and Madame Steur, Stichting Lettergieten 1983 / Typefoundry Westzaan (Netherlands) and Uwe Breker (Germany)
Charles and Sandra Hull, British Printing Museum (UK) in the first row; Denise Pierrot (France) and Pauline Rummel, Estonian Printing Museum (second) and Robert Clerebaut, AEPM (Belgium) and Ruth Kirkby (third row)
Nicole Sauerwein-Pittich and Ralph Pittich, Pro Lichtdruck (Germany)
Stephane de Schrevel (Netherlands) and Ion Georgescu, Asociatia Moara de hartie (Romania)
The North American contingent: Greg Walters (USA) and Mark Barbour, International Printing Museum, California (USA)
Up bright and early for the annual general meeting of the AEPM
Stefan Soltek, Klingspor Museum (Germany) keeps the meeting in order with the help of Patrick Goossens (treasurer) and Alan Marshall (chair)
The family photograph before heading off to Ghent to visit the Industriemuseum
Waiting for the bus...
The Industriemuseum, Ghent
Robin Boone (Belgium) introduces us to the Industriemuseum's magnificent new printing display
Meandering among the many machines
It's playtime!
Iris Kockelbergh, curator of the Plantin-Moretus Museum with Eckehardt SchumacherGebler, Offizin Haag-Drugulin (Germany, Zahra Benkass, AMI Atelier-musée de l'imprimerie (France) and Mark Barbour, International Printing Museum (USA)