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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]
A fragment of a dharani print in Sanskrit and Chinese, c. 650–670, Tang dynasty The Great Dharani Sutra, one of the world's oldest surviving woodblock prints, c. 704-751 The intricate frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra from Tang-dynasty China, 868 AD (British Museum), the earliest extant printed text bearing a date of printing Colophon to the Diamond Sutra dating the year of printing to 868
Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on woodblock printing The History of Chinese Bookbinding: the case of Dunhuang findings
Color printing: By at least the Yuan dynasty, China had invented color printing for paper. British art historian Michael Sullivan writes that "the earliest color printing known in China, and indeed in the whole world, is a two-color frontispiece to a Buddhist sutra scroll, dated 1346".
Pages in category "History museums in China" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. ... China Printing Museum; D. Dabaotai Western Han Dynasty ...
The Chinese invention of woodblock printing, at some point before the first dated book in 868 (the Diamond Sutra), produced the world's first print culture. According to A. Hyatt Mayor, curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "it was the Chinese who really invented the means of communication that was to dominate until our age."
In her book “The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A History,” Kristie Wolferman reports that in 1933, 1934 and 1935, “Sickman sent crate after crate of Chinese art objects to the Nelson-Atkins.”
China 1st-Grade National Museums. As of 2020, there are 5,788 museums in China, [1] including 3,054 state-owned museums (museums run by national and local government or universities) and 535 private museums.