The Typewriter Museum

The imprints of time: The adventures of a typewriter throughout the 20th century

Once a typewriter created a revolution in writing and communication. After that it became a crucial part of office work that allowed us to quickly write documents. Later - an old and obsolete residue of the past, turning into a small piece of all the things a computer and today’s smart devices are capable of. Now it’s reviving yet again and gives an opportunity to meet itself. We invite you to not just meet the typewriter itself, but also, it’s always-changing world filled with stories.

Typewriter – a device that with it’s timeline shows how some mechanism could not just be an innovation of it’s time, but also a part of office work, literature, politics and today’s nostalgia.

What can you expect:

• A selection of historic typewriters – with their stories and specialties;
• An insight into typewriter’s role in society;
• Things that lived alongside the typewriter – what they used to write, how they were repaired and where they were produced;

Visitors can also try selected typewriters out themselves and take what they wrote along! The number of papers is limited!
Meet the typewriters and their rhythmic clicking sounds and the vintage analogue writing experience – that’s not just writing, it’s a whole era or people’s lives.

The event will be available from 19:00 up to 00:00, at Sergeja Eizenšteina iela 59a, Riga. Free of admission.

There will be a technical break from 21:00 until 21:30, during which the event will not be available for a visit.

Filming and photography will be happening during the event with purposes of publicity and protection of the property.