Fountain Pen Museum?

[Sailor Kenshin]

Is there such a thing anywhere? Wonder if any of our members knows....

 

That would be one place to donate pens, at least.

[OldGriz]

While I know of no formal FP Museum in the US.... I do know that the PCA has discussed such an undertaking..

You might want to do something along the lines of discussing a revolving exhibit at your local library showing the history of pens and writing through the ages...

[George]

Michael Fultz has a museum getting ready to open in Chicago - don't know too many details...

 

George

[hari317]

Is there such a thing anywhere?

 

There is the Pilot pen station in Tokyo. I have read that MB has a private museum showcasing their vintage pens...

 

 

[jowe]

In the Netherlands, in Tilburg, there is the Scryption museum. www.scryption.nl (site in dutch)

They have a collection of all sorts of items, related to writing including fountain pens.

 

[rwilsonedn]

Why couldn't FPN members put together a Web museum? We'd already have a good start with the Reviews section. It might only take a bunch of volunteer "curators" to take responsibility for particular brands or (in the case of lesser-known brands) countries and periods, to make prioritized want-lists and solicit reviews from members in a standard form. It would be slow, but it could be wonderful when finished.

ron

[Pendragon]

The book Collectible Fountain Pens by Juan Manuel Clark mentions a Musée du Stylo in Paris. Apparently this museum had one of the world's largest pen collections, including some rare and valuable examples. The book also states that the entire pen collection was stolen.

 

Google Maps street view shows a Musée du Stylo & De l'Ecriture Armando Simoni at 3 Rue Guy de Maupassant, Paris. Various websites show it as being open on Sundays from 2pm-6pm or by appointment. I wonder if they ever rebuilt their collection, at least in part... Maybe there is a Parisian member on FPN who could let us know more about this museum, and if it is still open? I assume that the "Armando Simoni" refers to the founder of OMAS.

 

[Rique]

There used to be one in the UK : http://www.penmuseum.co.uk/, but it seems to have been dismantled.

[Sailor Kenshin]

While I know of no formal FP Museum in the US.... I do know that the PCA has discussed such an undertaking..

You might want to do something along the lines of discussing a revolving exhibit at your local library showing the history of pens and writing through the ages...

 

 

What a cool idea!

 

Hmm.... I wonder what it would take to have an actual museum? Too bad I don't live somewhere with a lot of outbuildings.

[stevlight]

If I win the lottery tomorrow I am SO buying a building for the FPN museum!!!!! We could have an awesome collection, workshops, a pen store and little writing tables where you can borrow loaner pens and ink and just draw and write!!

[ToasterPastry]

Fred Krinke's store in Monrovia (Los Angeles) is about as close to a Fountain Pen Museum as you are going to find--includes displays of pens back to the 1800s. Plus, Fred is a walking encyclopedia of knowledge since his family business has been around for 3 generations.

[axolotl66]

The Pen Room in Birmingham, England, where a third of the nibs in the world were once produced (Birmingham, not the Pen Room!)

http://www.jewelleryquarter.net/about/sub-page/pen-room/

Graham

[Bo Bo Olson]

One of our posters Kaweco is striving to open one in Heidelberg, the one time fountain pen capitol of the world.

 

Too bad the local politicians use ball points.

Edited February 9, 2012 by Bo Bo Olson

[ObserveClosely]

The book Collectible Fountain Pens by Juan Manuel Clark mentions a Musée du Stylo in Paris. Apparently this museum had one of the world's largest pen collections, including some rare and valuable examples.

The book also states that the entire pen collection was stolen

[gulp] Well. So much for THAT museum. Sheesh. Au revoir, Musée du Stylo.

[nxn96]

I believe there is a Sheaffer Museum in Ft. Madison, IA and the Janesville, WI Historical Museum has a permanent exhibit dedicated to Parker. Those are the only two I can think of, but they are dedicated to the particular brands/companies and not the general history of pens.

[Albertotorinoitaly]

Two years ago the Officina della scrittura - Museo Aurora opened his doors. In Turin, Italy.

http://www.officinadellascrittura.it/

 

A virtual visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmrcjh5WjqU

and the presentation of an exhibit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngv_aChkHac

 

Alberto

[Bo Bo Olson]

Kaweco did open it. Only got half as big as he needed, they wouldn't let him put in an industrial gitter second floor, because some drunk tourist climbed up a spring type monument in town, fell and died. Like Drunks go to fountain pen museums and climb around.

All of it is his, but he only has room for 1/3 of what he has.

I once put up a bunch of pictures and got a poor response so will only put up a few.

The museum is in a Art Nouveau fire station across from the ruins of a 13th century castle, in Hanschueheim....Glove home. Across the river from Heidelberg.

 

 

 

 

 

 

For making multiple pen bodies

 

 

A very few of his pens....

 

I do have a Mercedes, made by a man who worked once for MB, has noting really to do with the car.

An unsorted pile of pens in the back room....I have one or two of that brand but he had a shoebox full. The back room is really full. ...as you can see on the table under the hand.

 

 

I 'lost' much of the other photo's of the pens to Ransom Bucket and didn't take the time to add to Imgur due to lack of interest.

Some were interested in the machines to make a fountain pen.

 

If one goes to De La Rue or Ortho if that is the name, there is a video of old style machines in use. He has old style machines...of course not in use, and many cabinets displaying a good chunk of Heldelber's long history of making fountain pens, from Kaweco from @ 1900 on, Osmia, Lamy, Herlitz, Mercedes, original Reform...back when it was a world class pen...not the cheap one you know. Faber Castel....and so on.

 

Heidelberg was once the fountain pen capitol of the world....with 9 or 10 factories that I know of, Thomas knows of course of more. He is a ...scholar on this area and of German fountain pens in general .

[georges zaslavsky]

There used to be a Sheaffer Musueum in Fort Madison but it sadly closed not so long ago. Not sure if there is a Parker Museum in Janesville.

[WLSpec]

I think I read in Pen World that Aurora opened one? Let me check on that...

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/314065-aurora-opens-a-museum/

[txomsy]

Pelikan Museum Hannover
Füllhalter museum http://www.tiefburg.de/fuellhaltermuseum.htm
Füllfederhalter-Museum in Heidelberg http://www.rhein-neckar-industriekultur.de/objekte/füllfederhalter-museum-heidelberg
Musée du stylo, 3, rue Guy de Maupassant Paris