Be sure to look at the Calendar of Events to see what other activities are planned for the Museum ! ! !

APRIL 28th, AUGUST 25th, OCTOBER 20th BOY SCOUT MERIT BADGE DAY
A full-day event giving scouts the opportunity to earn their Graphic Arts and Pulp & Paper Merit Badges through 12 working stations. Advance registration is required; not open to the general public (but volunteers needed!)

JUNE 30th & July 1st INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION
Celebrate our Independence Day with Ben Franklin at the Museum with your whole family! The day’s activities include special tours, printing your own Declaration of Independence on a colonial press, Freedom Dogs & Lemonade, and our special theatre presentation, “The Confounding Brothers” with Franklin, Jefferson and Adams.
Put in your Reservations for this regularly sold-out event!

SEPTEMBER 15th CONSTITUTION DAY CELEBRATION
Celebrate the birth of our Constitution with a special presentation at the Printing Museum. Guests will meet Franklin & Madison at the Museum’s Independence Hall, becoming delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. They will participate in a lively debate of what might or might not go into that great document. Tours will include the chance to print your own Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights.
Just in time for this year’s elections!

OCTOBER 6th LOS ANGELES PRINTERS FAIR
The 4th Annual Los Angeles Printers Fair will be a wonderful celebration of Paper and Printing, featuring over 100 artist vendors and suppliers, demonstrations all day and large quantity of vintage printing equipment for sale.

OCTOBER 26th & 27th THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT II
“Things That Go Bump In The Night’ is returning as our successful foray into the world of spooks and suspense with eerie tales by the Master Authors. Print out your own creepy keepsake in our Dead Letter Department and be very careful of who or what you meet on these very special evenings at the Museum.

DECEMBER 8th, 9th & 15th DICKENS HOLIDAY CELEBRATION
Designed for the whole family, this annual holiday event brings the Christmas Carol to life. The Museum’s galleries are transformed into Fezziwig’s Warehouse, holiday music is in the air as guests print their own Victorian Christmas Cards on the antique presses. Meet up with Dickens characters like Fagin from Oliver Twist, Mr. Micawber (David Copperfield), Miss Haversham who has “great expectations”! Dickens himself will retell his famous Carol in the Museum’s Theatre, becoming Scrooge and using his audience as characters in his story! A lunch of English bangers & gingerbread will be enjoyed by all. Reservations are required for this regularly sold-out celebration and
come dressed Victorian style, Gov’nor!