One of the objects best worth visiting in Antwerp, after the Cathedral and the Picture Gallery, is the =Plantin-Moretus Museum= containing many memorials of a famous family of =Renaissance printers=, whose monuments we have already seen in the Cathedral. To reach it you turn from the Place Verte into the Rue des Peignes, almost opposite the S. door of the Cathedral. The second turning to the R. will lead you into the small _Place du Vendredi_, the most conspicuous building in which is the Museum. Beyond advising a visit, it is difficult to say much about this interesting old house and its contents. Those who are lovers of _typography_ or of _old engravings_ will find enough in it to occupy them for more than one morning. Such had better buy the admirable work, _Le Musée Plantin-Moretus_, by M. Max Rooses, the conservator. On the other hand, the general sight-seer will at least be pleased with the picturesque courtyard, draped in summer by the mantling foliage and abundant clusters of a magnificent old vine, as well as with the spacious rooms, the carved oak doorways, balustrades, and staircases, the delicious galleries, the tiles and fireplaces, and the many admirable portraits by Rubens or others. Were it merely as a striking example of a =Flemish domestic interior= of the upper class during the Spanish period, this Museum would well deserve attention. Read the following notes before starting. The =house of Plantin= was established by Christopher Plantin of Tours (born 1514), who came to Antwerp in 1549, and established himself as a printer in 1555. He was made Archetypographer to the King by Philip II., and the business was carried on in this building by himself, his son-in-law, Moretus, and his descendants, from 1579 till 1875. It was Plantin’s daughter, Martina, who married John Moretus (see the Cathedral), and under the name of Plantin-Moretus the business was continued through many generations to our own day. The firm were essentially =learned printers=, setting up works in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, or even in Oriental types, and issuing editions of many important classical authors. I will not describe the various rooms, about which the reader can wander for himself at his own sweet will, but will merely mention that they contain admirable portraits of the Plantin and Moretus families, and of their famous editor, Justus Lipsius, by Rubens, and others. (The Lipsius is particularly interesting for comparison with the one at Florence in the Pitti.) The dwelling-rooms and reception-rooms, of the family, with their fine early furniture, are now open to the visitor. So is the quaint little =shop=, facing the street, the composing room and proof-readers’ room, the =study= occupied by Lipsius, and the =library=, with examples of many of the books printed by the firm. The original =blocks= of their woodcuts and of their capital letters, with the plates of their engravings, are likewise shown, together with old and modern impressions.