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The Plantin-Moretus Museum is the only museum on the UNESCO World Heritage List and the world's oldest surviving printing workshop. Housed in a Renaissance patrician mansion, it preserves the world's two oldest printing presses and a library of 30,000 pre-modern volumes.
Christophe Plantin established his printing house in 1555. His son-in-law Jan Moretus continued the dynasty. The business operated continuously until 1876, when the city of Antwerp purchased the entire complex. UNESCO inscribed it in 2005.