China Printing Museum

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China Printing Museum

中国印刷博物馆
Established	1996
Location	Qingyuan Subdistrict, Daxing District, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Coordinates	39°44′27″N 116°19′32″E / 39.7407°N 116.3256°E / 39.7407; 116.3256
Website	printingmuseum.cn

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]

It is situated inside the Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication [zh] campus at Qingyuanlu Station of subway line 4, in Daxing District, Beijing.

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  Oracle bone script, Shang dynasty (16th — 11th century B.C.) unearthed at the capital of Yin (modern Anyang, Henan Province).
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  Steps to make rice paper, from rice straw to paper sheet.
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  Pencil brush from the Warring States period.
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  Rebuild of Bi Sheng (simplified Chinese: 毕升; traditional Chinese: 畢昇, 11th century) creation of mobile characters printing tools

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