Summer Afternoons at the Marshfield Sun Printing Museum, May 21

Every Tuesday through Saturday summer afternoon you can visit The Marshfield Sun Printing Museum to see and learn about the antique printing presses and other fascinating equipment.  You can even find out why capital letters are called “upper case” and the other letters are called “lower case.”  Skilled volunteers are always on hand to interpret and demonstrate how the various equipment works, as well as to answer questions about the Museum’s exhibits on printing and office technology.  The museum is popular, even among kids.  “School children who visited the Marshfield Sun during the Front Street History event in the spring often bring their families in summer to show them what they learned,” explained MSPM Association Board President, George Tinker.  The Marshfield Sun Printing Museum is a unique printing museum located in that building at the north end of Front Street on Coos Bay’s historic waterfront.  The unusually shaped building was built as the home for the Marshfield Sun newspaper and print shop in 1911.  The Marshfield Sun was a working newspaper office and print shop from 1891 to 1944-and is today essentially as it was left in 1944, with additional exhibits upstairs and on the walls.  The Marshfield Sun Printing Museum’s regular summer hours begin the day after Memorial Day and go through Labor Day:  1pm – 4pm Tuesday through Saturday.  Admission is free.  Call 541-267-4027 for more information.