China_Printing_Museum
China Printing Museum
Printing museum in Beijing, China
The China Printing Museum (Chinese: 中国印刷博物馆; pinyin: zhōngguó yìnshuā bówùguǎn) is a public museum dedicated to printing, located in Beijing, China. Established in 1996, the China Printing Plate Museum is the largest museum on printing in the world.[1] The China Printing Museum displays the invention and evolution of Chinese printing.[2] The museum has collected many collections of printing equipment, printed manuscripts, ceramics and other exhibits.[3]
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It is situated inside the Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication campus at Qingyuanlu Station of subway line 4, in Daxing District, Beijing.
- Oracle bone script, Shang dynasty (16th — 11th century B.C.) unearthed at the capital of Yin (modern Anyang, Henan Province).
- Steps to make rice paper, from rice straw to paper sheet.
- Pencil brush from the Warring States period.
- Rebuild of Bi Sheng (simplified Chinese: 毕升; traditional Chinese: 畢昇, 11th century) creation of mobile characters printing tools