The paper focuses on the digitisation of typographic collections in two Italian museums: Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione, Museo Bodoniano. An earlier survey allowed us to understand the processes of acquisition of digital photographs, the organisation of documents in databases, and the availability of direct access to them by staff and external users in different Italian typographic museums. The research reported here brings a further dimension to the earlier survey by looking at the physical museum spaces from which digitisations originate, including the observation of relationships between real and virtual equipment and devices. It also examines whether the two museums can be considered hubs for the development of typographic culture, both in a virtual and in a real sense. It verifies whether documents, artefacts, together with people’s living knowledge and experience contribute to the realisation of a true ecology of knowledge. The methods adopted included a review of the answers from the previous survey, an interview with the designer responsible for the concept of the institutional websites, an analysis of the websites and a visit to both museum spaces.