So, something magical happened to me today, and I wanted to tell you all about it.

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October 28, 2016
When you accidentally stumble upon your dream museum
Marcin Wichary, the lead typographer and designer at Medium, is obsessed with all things typeface, including typewriters. So when he chanced upon Museu de la Tècnica in a small Spanish town, nothing could have prepared him for what he found.
When you accidentally stumble upon your dream museum
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I’m driving from Barcelona to the edge of Pyrenees, but my friend tells me to detour to the little town of Figueres, for the Dalí Museum.
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As I am walking towards it, I see this sign pointing the other way, saying “Museu de la Tècnica,” with a cute gear icon.
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I walk and walk. The cute downtown slowly disappears around me. At some point the signs stop talking about the museum.
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I’m thinking that maybe the museum shut down, and they just forgot to update the signage? But I keep walking. And at some point I find it.
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And literally, the first thing that greets me is a Bar-Lock typewriter. A glorious one, with a gorgeous cover…
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…and a non-shifted keyboard. And, one can touch it! So I do, immediately.
I am typing on a Bar-Lock!!! This was already worth it.
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Then I see that the stairs go up, still. There must be another floor.
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As I am going up, I see some posters of typewriters, but I don’t make too much of it.
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AND THEN I SEE THIS. I don’t actually have a good photo, but the third floor is five rooms filled with HUNDREDS of typewriters.
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I have never seen so many typewriters under one roof. Not even close.
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At this point, I literally have tears in my eyes. I’m not kidding. This feels like a miracle.
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I don’t even know what to do. There is tons of stuff here. Eventually, I compose myself.
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Then I type on the first Sholes and Glidden, from 18-whatever-the-fuck. This is where QWERTY started, and I AM TYPING ON IT.
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I find the dual Imperial I talked about in one of my Ignite talks. I never thought I would see it in person.
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This kind of feels like a dream.
Not figuratively: I have had dreams like this, finding an awesome place that I didn’t even know existed.
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To think I could have so easily missed it…
And, by the way, I never made it to Dalí Museum. This was surreal as it was. :·)
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