Operated by Hong Kong Open Printshop, this is an organisation that preserves and celebrates the significant history of Hong Kong’s movable type and letterpress printing heritage. Once located on Shanghai Street, their premises are now split into an exhibition space in PMQ and a professional printmaking workshop in the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre.
If you’re curious about the hidden stories of the ‘Hong Kong Type’ – a set of Chinese lead types that originated in Hong Kong in the mid-19th century – then this is where you need to go. At a time when there are no more type foundries in the city, Print Art Contemporary acquired a type founding workbench for demonstration, aiming to keep the art of printing alive, so visitors can expect to see printing machines, type cases, and documents acquired from local pressmen.