Kyoto International Manga Museum
The Kyoto International Manga Museum (京都国際マンガミュージアム, Kyōto Kokusai Manga Myūjiamu) is located in Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The museum's collection includes approximately 300,000 items as of 2016, with 50,000 volumes of manga that can be accessed and read by visitors and approximately 250,000 items in its closed-stack collection, which can be accessed via a dedicated research room supported by reference facilities. Collected materials include Edo period woodblock prints, pre-war magazines, post-war rental books, and popular modern series from around the world.
Location within Central Japan | |
| Established | November 25, 2006 |
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| Location | Kyoto, Japan |
| Coordinates | 35°00′42″N 135°45′33″E |
| Type | Art museum, Library |
| Collections | Comics |
| Collection size | 300,000 items (2015) |
| Visitors | 290,000 (2016) |
| Director | Hiroshi Aramata |
| Website | www |
The museum is a public–private partnership of Kyoto Seika University and the city of Kyoto. The city provided the building and land. The university operates the facility under the oversight of a joint committee. The museum acts as a manga library and history resource for the public, as well as serving the manga-related research interests of Kyoto Seika University's International Manga Research Center.