The American Bookbinders Museum is the only museum of its kind in North America, celebrating and exploring the history, tools and stories of bookbinders and bookbinding, from its earliest forms through the changes and innovations of the industrial revolution.
355 Clementina Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
American Bookbinders Museum
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Venue Exhibitions
- HBC53: The Hand Bookbinders of California
- OPEN • SET 2025 Competition & Exhibition
- The Magic of Marbling
- Anatomy of a Book | What Books are Made of
- Stenciling in Book & Applied Arts
- The American Bookbinders Museum is excited to welcome Poetic Journey/Travesía Poética.
- The Many Lives of Books
- Ex Libris: The Art of Contemporary World Bookplates
- Making Their Mark
- Standard | Deluxe | Design
- 49th Annual Hand Bookbinders of California Exhibition
- Online Exhibits
- Celebrating the 19th Amendment
- Design Binding Today: OPEN • SET 2020
- Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers Bindings
- Book Smart: Learning to Break the Rules
- Queer Voices: Paperbacks and Periodicals Forging Community
- Long Live the Book!
Venue Events
- OPEN•SET 2025 Binders Process Panel
- Monthly Bookbinding Workshop:Binding Made Simple
- Monthly Bookbinding Workshop: Rebinding Paperbacks
- Monthly Bookbinding Workshop: Hardcover Coptic Journal
- Monthly Bookbinding Workshop: Limp Wrapper
- Monthly Bookbinding Workshop: Rebinding
- Monthly Bookbinding Workshop: Chicago Screw Post Binding
- Monthly Bookbinding Workshop: Easy Inlays
- Monthly Bookbinding Workshop: Triangular Map
- Monthly Bookbinding Workshop: Spinning Accordion
- Monthly Bookbinding Workshop: Stab Binding
- Monthly Bookbinding Workshop: Buttonhole Binding
- Monthly Bookbinding Workshop: Rebinding
- Exploring CutOuts: Techniques, History, and Modern Tools
- Monthly Bookbinding Workshop: Centipede Stitch Journal
- Monthly Bookbinding Workshop: Case Bindings
- SF in SF with ROBIN SLOAN, RUDY RUCKER & CLARA WARD
- Monthly Bookbinding Workshop: Carousel Binding
- Monthly Bookbinding Workshop: Long Stitch Binding
- Monthly Bookbinding Workshop: French Link Binding
- Monthly BookBinding Workshop: Rebinding
- Marbling Around the World
- London Strife: the Great Bookbinding Strike of 1786
- Collecting and Preserving Pop-ups & Miniatures
- Cover to Cover: The Process and Technique of Screen Printing on Book Covers
- Rare Books: What Makes Them Rare & How to Care For Them
- Binding Community: Bringing Together Diverse Peoples with the Art of Bookbinding
- Monthly Bookbinding Workshop: Stab Binding
- Monthly Bookbinding Workshop
- Monthly Bookbinding Workshop
- SF in SF with Samantha Mills and Hana Lee
- Nature as Muse
- Open Book: The Whimsy and Technique of Three-dimensional Book Construction
- Stitches Through Time
- Who Restores Books? How to Choose Wisely
- Disappearing Art—the History and Craftsmanship of the Vanishing Fore-edge
- Marbling Fine Bindings
- Collector’s Talk and Tour for Stenciling in Book & Applied Arts
- SF in SF with John Scalzi
- Designing with Typography
- Introduction to Bookbinding for Adults / Introducción a la Encuadernación para Adultos
- Special Exhibit Opening Reception
- The Opening of Poetic Journey/Travesía Poética
- SF in SF with Nancy Kress and Jack Skillingstead
- SF in SF with Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms
- SF in SF with Charlie Jane Anders and Kate Maruyama
- SF in SF with Fran Wilde and Henry Lien
- Hosting Word For Word
- Introduction to Bookbinding for Adults
- Introduction to Bookbinding for Kids | Introducción a la Encuadernación para Niños
- Hosting Word For Word
- Opening Reception for The Many Lives of Books
- SF in SF with Kim Stanley Robinson and Cecelia Holland
- SF in SF with Mary Robinette Kowal and Adam Savage
- SF in SF with Laura Anne Gilman, Dana Fredsti, and Meg Elison
- SF in SF with Authors Scott Nicolay & Anya Martin
- Special Lecture
- Yerba Buena Night at ABM Presents
- Opening Reception for Ex Libris
- SF in SF: Sam J. Miller and Kimberly Unger
- EX UNO MULTIS: Out of One Many
- Mallette Dean, A Printmaker and His Art
- The Life and Times of Jo Mora: Iconic Artist of the American West
- Content to Cover
- Manufacture of Leather
- Making Their Mark Virtual Reception
- Making Their Mark Lecture Series: Lecture 1
- Making Their Mark Lecture Series: Lecture 2
- San Francisco History Days, Sept. 25-27, 2020
- SF in SF with Juliette Wade, Tiffany Trent, and Mike Chen
- Bound for Beauty Reception
- SF in SF with Kim Stanley Robinson and Cecelia Holland
- Collector’s Tour Led by ABM Donor Kathleen Roberts
- SF in SF with Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders
- The Art and Social History of 19th Century Book Cover Design
- Smithonian Museum Day at ABM
- SF in SF with Garth Nix
- Opening Reception for Book Smart: Learning to Break the Rules
- SF in SF with Hannu Rajaniemi and Christopher Brown
- SF in SF with Vylar Kaftan and Megan O’Keefe
- Art Walk
- SF LGBTQ+ Journalism in the Early Days of HIV/AIDS
- Queer Voices Opening Happy Hour
- He to She: The Challenge of Gender Change in Lurid 1950s to ’60s Pulp Cover Art
- When the Bar was the Only Place in Town
- SF in SF with Peter Beagle and Jaymee Goh
- SF in SF with Nancy Kress and Jack Skillingstead
- Reception for Long Live the Book!
- SF in SF with Cecelia Holland, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Howard Hendrix
- long live the book! Lecture Series: Birthing a Book
- Children’s Story Hour
- Family Party for Of Wonders Wild and New
- SF in SF with Rudy Rucker and Gregory Norman Bossert
- HBC Artists in Residence
- HBC Artists in Residence
- HBC Artists in Residence
- SF in SF with Nick Mamatas and Michael Marshal Smith
- HBC Exhibit Talk
- HBC Presentation: Collaborative Comic Book Project: “What Books Mean to Me”
- HBC Artists in Residence
- Opening Reception: Hand Bookbinders of California Exhibit