About Us
One of the World's Largest Private Collections
Where Ink Immortalises The Arc of Civilisation
CIPHM preserves the irreplaceable testimony of print an ever-growing archive of newspapers, periodicals, historical books, rare magazines, and cultural artefacts that collectively narrate the human story from the dawn of mass communication to the digital threshold.
One of the World's Largest
Private Collections
THE COLLECTIVE JOURNEY
We did not begin with a building, we began with a belief.
A belief that the printed word, pressed onto paper by human hands across centuries, constitutes civilisation's most democratic archive.
THE COLLECTION THAT NEVER RESTS
While institutions slumber and budgets deliberate, CIPHM acts, daily, decisively, and without cessation.
We do not wait for history to be recognised as significant.
We collect it as it happens.
WHY PRINT HERITAGE MATTERS
The Irreplaceable Witness Why Print Heritage Is the World's First Draft
Newspapers and periodicals are the only medium that narrate the stories of their time and people.
They recorded the outbreak of wars before telegrams reached generals, the deaths of kings before couriers reached provinces, and the birth of nations before constitutions were ratified.
CIPHM puts emphasis that PRINT is not merely paper and ink.
It is memory crystallised.
The Guardians of Print & Heritage Curios
CIPHM preserves the irreplaceable testimony of print an ever-growing archive of newspapers, periodicals, historical books, rare magazines, and cultural artefacts that collectively narrate the human story from the dawn of mass communication to the digital threshold.
4M+
Original print artefacts
in the world's largest private newspaper archive
1890s
Oldest Newspaper titles in international institutional collections date to the 1600s
40000+
Titles catalogued by the International Newspaper Museum at it's 1911 foundating
150+
Countries represented through newspapers, books, magazines and artefacts