A Message from the Director

Sep. 4, 2019

A section of the floors are currently closed.

The Printing Museum Tokyo is being renovated for a Renewal Opening in 2020. The P&P Gallery and the library are currently closed due to renovations. The Prologue Exhibition Zone and the Main Exhibition Zones will begin the renewal by the end of 2019.

Please excuse us for this inconvenience. The P&P Gallery will have its Renewal Opening on Saturday, September 28th with the "Modern Japan Package 2019" exhibition. Please look forward to this exhibition.

Koichi Kabayama

Director
Printing Museum, Tokyo

Koichi Kabayama

Director
Printing Museum, Tokyo

Born in Tokyo in 1945. Graduated from the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo in 1965, and after completing the masters degree course at the university became a research assistant at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University in 1969. Became an assistant professor at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo in 1976, and later became a professor. Served as the Director-General of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo from 2001, becoming Director of the Printing Museum, Tokyo in 2005, a position he still holds. His fields of specialization are Western history and Western cultural history.