The new Crandall Printing Museum opened its doors Jan. 28 in Alpine after the original in Provo shut down more than three years ago.
ALPINE — A new Utah County museum is "seizing the day" and "carrying the banner" with its multiple printing press replicas that are fully functional and on display in the heart of Alpine." with printing presses, shelves full of typesetting letters, ink cartridges, freshly printed paper drying and more. The only thing missing is the dancing newsboys.
Johnson's mother ended up buying all of the materials from the museum with the intention of reopening it in a few years after Johnson finished school. Johnson's father donated a building he owned for the museum. They asked Johnson's mother's friend Holli Rogerson, who she met during school, to be the director of the museum. During the time Johnson was being the "King of New York" and going to school there, Rogerson started organizing the material in the new building, as she finished a master's program.
The museum is home to four replica printing presses, including a Gutenberg press that printed the first Bible, an English Common press used by Benjamin Franklin to print the Declaration of Independence, an acorn press used to print the first Book of Mormon and a ramage press that printed the first Deseret News newspaper.
Johnson said the world will know the invention of the printing press was crucial to history. He thinks it's amazing to journal how everything can be traced back to this one invention. "We're so used to new things with technology expanding so fast. But back then it took a long time," she said.
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