Printing Museum

China Printing Museum

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Printing Museum generally refers to China Printing Museum

Located at 25 Xinghua North Road, Huangcun, Daxing District, Beijing, China Printing Museum is the largest professional printing Museum in the world. It was officially completed and opened to the public on June 1, 1996

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The total construction area of China Printing Museum is about 8000 square meters, and the exhibition area is about 6000 square meters. There are exhibition halls for ancient Chinese printing, modern world printing, printing equipment, digital and temporary exhibition halls. Many of the museum's precious collections are donated by the museum's advisory and expert committee and some well-known people, ranging from pottery of historical value, scriptures, ancient and modern font, type, printing equipment, to complete sets of printed books

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China Printing Museum was named "Beijing Patriotic Education Base" on September 6, 1997

In May 1998, it was named "Beijing Science Popularization Education Base"

In 2012, it was rated as "national popular science education base"

In 2015, it was rated as "excellent national popular science education base"

In 2019, it was rated as "national patriotic education demonstration base"

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Historical evolution

In June 1983, Wang Yi and Wang Fangzi proposed to build the China Printing Museum.

In October 1991, fan Muhan presided over the preparatory work for the construction of China Printing Museum.

On December 4, 1992, China Printing Museum held a foundation laying ceremony.

On June 1, 1996, the China Printing Museum was officially completed and opened to the outside world. Comrade Jiang Zemin wrote the name of the museum himself.

On April 15, 2000, China Printing Museum established its first branch in Gutenberg Museum. In the same year, a second branch was built in Vienna college.

In April 2001, the printing equipment museum was built on the ground floor of China Printing Museum.

On October 30, 2008, the China Printing Museum opened its third branch in the Australian Chinese Museum in Melbourne.

On July 4, 2013, China Printing Museum established an exhibition hall of printing history in Dangkou ancient town, Wuxi

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On June 1, 2015, China Printing Museum launched a fee based explanation service

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Architectural pattern

overview

With a total construction area of 8000 square meters and exhibition area of 6000 square meters, China Printing Museum is the largest printing Museum in the world. There are ancient Chinese printing exhibition hall, modern world printing exhibition hall, printing equipment exhibition hall, digital exhibition hall and temporary exhibition hall. The museum also has an interactive experience area where visitors can experience the ancient papermaking process and engraving movable type printing process

 

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Exhibition hall of ancient Chinese printing

Located on the first floor of the China Printing Museum, the exhibition hall of ancient Chinese printing shows the historical process of the origin, development, inheritance and dissemination of ancient Chinese printing from the Neolithic era to the Qing Dynasty with pictures, text descriptions and objects. The development of ancient printing technology is one of the key parts of the museum display. It also shows the engraving symbols 8000 years ago and the rubbing and printing technology in the Wei, Jin, southern and Northern Dynasties. Visitors can appreciate the world-famous scrolled Jingang Jing of Tang Dynasty; Chunqiu Jing Zhuan and Anmin notice, the treasures of Zhenguan; the restored clay movable type invented by Bisheng of Song Dynasty; and the movable type wheel typesetting plate invented by Wang Zhen of Yuan Dynasty. The inheritance of printing focuses on the World Cultural Heritage related to printing. In the part of communication, we mainly show the external transmission route of Chinese printing through sand table

 

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World modern printing exhibition hall

The world modern printing exhibition hall is located on the second floor of China Printing Museum, with an exhibition area of about 800 square meters. The exhibition hall is divided into three units: the introduction and development of modern and contemporary printing technology, the rise and development of modern and contemporary printing industry in China, and printing and contemporary life. It shows the course of docking, blending and mutual learning between Chinese invented printing technology and modern Western printing technology in the 19th century, and the rapid development speed of world printing technology. It also shows digital printing, green printing, network printing, etc New concept, new technology

 

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Printing equipment Museum

The printing equipment museum is located on the ground floor of China Printing Museum, covering an area of 2200 square meters. It was completed in April 2001. The museum displays a variety of prepress, printing and Postpress processing equipment from 1865 to the early 1990s. These include the early hand-held iron press, type casting and typesetting machine, manual phototypesetting machine, the world's only one made by Miley company in 1926, weighing 45 tons of double full sheet and two-color offset press, and the lithographic press made in Austria in 1892

 

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Collection

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Many precious collections of the China Printing Museum were donated by the museum's Advisory Committee of experts and some well-known social figures, ranging from pottery of historical value, scriptures, ancient and modern font, type, printing equipment, to complete sets of printed books. In 2005, with the support of the General Administration of press and publication and the State Administration of cultural relics, the museum Advisory Committee participated in the auction and took the song version of the spring and Autumn Annals as the treasure of the museum to the China Printing Museum. In 2015, it obtained the copy of Dawenkou Culture pottery statue in Shandong Province, and put the earliest Chinese characters into the museum

 

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Collection quality

Cultural Activity

In September 1999, China Printing Museum held "Printing Exhibition"

 

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In June 2011, China Printing Museum held "red printing exhibition"

 

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Honors

On September 6, 1997, China Printing Museum was awarded the title of "Beijing Patriotic Education Base" by Beijing Municipal People's government

 

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In May 1998, China Printing Museum was named "Beijing Science Popularization Education Base" by Beijing Science and technology popularization joint conference office

 

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In 2012, China Printing Museum was named "national science popularization education base"

 

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In 2015, China Printing Museum was rated as "excellent national popular science education base"

 

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In 2019, China Printing Museum was named "national patriotic education demonstration base"

 

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Visit information

geographical position

China Printing Museum is located at 25 Xinghua North Road, Huangcun, Daxing District, Beijing

 

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Opening Hours

9: 00-17:00 (closed Monday)

 

Ticket Price

Free Admission

 

Tour Guide Service

Charging standard: Chinese explanation of exhibition hall: 150 yuan / (1-30 people); English explanation of exhibition hall: 200 yuan / (1-30 people); Chinese explanation of special exhibition: 200 yuan / (1-30 people)

Scope of explanation: Exhibition Hall of ancient Chinese printing on the first floor, exhibition hall of modern world printing on the second floor (printing equipment hall is open to professional visitors by appointment).

Lecture time: 9:10-11:30 a.m. and 13:30-16:30 p.m. from Tuesday to Sunday (closed on Monday)

Notice for appointment: Chinese explanation needs to be made one day in advance, English explanation needs to be made three days in advance; when making an appointment, the name of the company, the name of the person making the appointment, the contact information, the number of visitors, etc. should be registered

 

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Traffic routes

Subway: Take Beijing Metro Line 4 and get there at exit a of Qingyuan Road station.

Bus: Take Beijing bus 410, 456, 631, 829, 841, 940, 954, 968, 969 and get off at Qingyuan Xili station.

Self driving: go southward along Huying bridge on the second Southwest Ring Road to the second exit Jinhua Temple (Huangcun village, Daxing city), turn right on the auxiliary road and go straight for 800 meters

 

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Address: No.100, Shuifeng Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai

Longitude: 121.54317001166

Latitude: 31.2893853873

Ticket information: free.

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