Cheongju Early Printing Museum

The Museum of Ancient Printing in Cheongju was opened in March 1992 at the site of Heungdeoksa Temple in Cheongju, where the world's oldest metal movable type book "Zhizhi" was printed. The Museum of Ancient Printing in Cheongju is a place for education to learn the history of the development of Korean printing and publishing culture in order to prove the cultural nation that invented and developed metal movable type printing at the beginning of the Korean nation and the great achievements of ancestors to future generations. Established as a professional museum of ancient printing and publishing. Because in the chapter of "Zhizhi" (the seventh month of Xuanguang's 7th year of Dingsi), there is a record of the printing and printing of Xingde Temple outside Muwai, Qingzhou, so "Zhizhi" has been circulated in the Xingde Temple in Qingzhou by the world. knowledge. However, the location of Heungdeoksa Temple cannot be determined. In 1985, due to the excavation and investigation by the staff of the Cheongju National University Museum, the bronze forbidden mouth and bronze Buddha bowl that were excavated were revealed in the inscriptions of Heungdeoksa Temple in the Seowonbu, which can be confirmed. The site of Xingde Temple. In the total area of 12,400 square meters of the Heungdeokji Temple site, the golden hall and the three-story stone pagoda with the double-eave octagonal roof with five fronts and three sides were restored. The Cheongju Ancient Printing Museum completed a large-scale expansion project in June 2000. The collection includes more than 2,000 pieces of ancient books, printing tools, and excavated relics from the site of Heungdeok Temple. With a total scale of 1,468 square meters, there are five permanent exhibition rooms and a curated exhibition room, a bookstore, a library, etc.