China Printing Museum

China Printing Museum is located in the satellite city of Huang Village of Daxing District, 15 kilometers away from the downtown. It was opened on June 1, 1996. It is a professional museum exhibiting China's printing culture, with the construction acreage of 8,000 square meters.

Printing is one of the four great inventions of ancient China. Its invention, development and spread have greatly promoted the advancement of society and civilization, thus printing is called “mother of civilization”. The museum fully displays the origin, invention and development of printing; the history of the printing industry in contemporary times; the modernization process of printing industry since the founding of the New China. There is the exhibition hall of ancient printing, exhibition hall of contemporary printing, exhibition hall of printing facilities, comprehensive exhibition hall. The exhibition hall of ancient printing is the most important part of the museum, which shows the origin, invention and development of printing with exhibition board, real articles and models. Among the exhibition articles, there are original presswork from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. It shows the historical facts that block printing, typography, chromatic printing and colored printing are all the great inventions of ancient China. The exhibition hall of contemporary printing is divided into special topic exhibitions including the introduction of western printing technology, the development of contemporary printing technology, the development of national printing industry, the construction of printing industry in the New China, as well as printing of currency, printing of stamps, etc. The comprehensive exhibition hall includes the exhibition stands of famous printing enterprises, precious printing products that have won awards. There is also an exhibition hall for the museum and Germany Gutenberg Museum to exchange exhibition articles, which is a condensed exhibition of early-time printing in Germany. There are more than 70 (sets of) printing facilities, including all kinds of before-printing, printing and after-printing facilities for nearly 150 years since the mid 19th century.

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