Mainz

I had a long weekend and ended up spending some time in Mainz.  I loved the city and had a great time there.  It is the birthplace of Gutenberg who invented movable type and revolutionized printing.  I think printing is a pretty cool process so I wanted to check out the Gutenberg museum.

Here is the legend himself:

The Gutenberg museum was awesome and much more involved then I initially expected.  I would absolutely recommend it to anyone.  The even had 4 original Gutenberg bible is a vault in the museum, it was neat to see them and incredible how well they had been preserved!  I wasn't able to take too many pictures at the museum before being told they weren't allowed but here are a few (by they way, I didn't see any signs posted...oops!)

Here is a recreation of the press, you can see the movable type in the background

Here is a close up of the movable type you can see on the press above:

 The type in the background from above:

 I also went to the cathedral in Mainz which was beautiful!  They had a museum in the cathedral of Roman artifacts but pictures in the museum were not allowed (they told me ahead of time!)

Finally I went to the Mainz art museum which was really nice.  They had a special exhibit on the history of the shoe which was interesting.  I couldn't take pictures inside but here is the outside:

Mainz was a great town with a ton to do.  It is high on my recommendation list!