Paper Museum

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Paper Museum
紙の博物館


Established	1950
Location	Kita, Tokyo, Japan
Coordinates	35°45′00″N 139°44′19″E / 35.74990°N 139.73865°E / 35.74990; 139.73865
Type	Paper museum
Website	www.papermuseum.jp

The Paper Museum is a museum about paper in Asukayama Park in Kita-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Its area of focus is the production of Western paper in Japan, which was manufactured there as early as 1873.^[1]

It is operated by the Paper Museum Public Interest Incorporated Foundation.^[2]

Museum exhibitions

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The museum is in a four-story building. On the first floor, there are lecture halls and libraries. The entrance and first exhibition room are on the second floor, a second exhibition room is on the third floor, and third and fourth exhibition rooms are on the fourth floor.

The first exhibition room covers the modern paper industry, with explanation panels on pulp and paper raw materials and manufacturing processes. Actual manufacturing machines and models are displayed.

In the second exhibition room, there is a "paper classroom" where you can experience the properties of paper and exhibits about recycling used paper.

The third exhibition room covers the history of paper and the paper industry.

Special exhibitions are held in the fourth exhibition room.

References

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↑ Kinmonth, Earl (2021-06-11). "Ajisai: Colors and Patterns that Brighten Japan's Rainy Season | JAPAN Forward". japan-forward.com. Retrieved 2022-03-09.
↑ "About the Paper Museum - 紙の博物館". papermuseum.jp. Retrieved 2021-08-04.

Paper

Paper engineering / Papermaking

History

Paper Ancestors	Bamboo and wooden slips Barkcloth Amate Tapa Birch bark Palm leaf Papyrus Parchment Vellum
Developers	Cai Lun Damjing Matthias Koops Friedrich Gottlob Keller Charles Fenerty
Scholars	Timothy Barrett Thomas Francis Carter Dard Hunter Tsien Tsuen-hsuin

Types of paper

By Plant Fiber	Banana Manila hemp Cotton Dung Dó Hemp Lokta Mulberry Daluang Hanji Saa Samarkand Washi Pith (Rice) Pulpwood Rag India Mummy Xuan Stone
by Process	Acidic Acid-free Air-laid Blue Cardboard Cardstock Corrugated fiberboard Paperboard Bristol Crêpe Glassine Kraft Laid Ingres Onionskin Paper towel Seed Tissue Toilet Wasli Wood-free Wove
Coated	Asphalt Photographic Rosin Tar Thermal Wax
by Use	Bible Blotting Bond Butcher Construction Display Cartridge Contact Copy Carbonless Correction Electrical insulation Filteration Inkjet Newsprint Origami Parchment Rolling Ruled paper Genkō yōshi Graph Security Tracing Transfer Wallpaper Writing