Museum books and publishing in Ukraine
![Museum books and publishing in Ukraine](/upload/gallery/6504/15845-jprkuzckyv-1920.jpg)
The museum was founded in 1972 in the International Year of the book celebrated by UNESCO. It is located in the National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Reserve in a former printing house of Laura, which continuously operated for over 300 years (beginning of the XVII century - twentieth years of XX century.).
The museum contains a rich treasure of literary culture of the Ukrainian people. The exposition covers the history of domestic books and of books from the time of Kievan Rus to the present day. The exhibits tell about the creation of written language among the Eastern Slavs, hand-written book about X-XVI centuries, on the origin of printing in Europe, the beginning and the development of Cyrillic typography, publishing Ivan Fedorov, other prominent founders of Ukrainian books XVI-XVIII centuries, Kyiv-Pechersk, Lviv, Ostrog, Pochayev, Chernihiv printing houses.