2024 Highlights
Bringing the Collection Online
The Museo del Origami is taking a big step towards making its collection accessible worldwide by launching a major digitisation project. This effort covers everything—from artwork to books and archival materials—and will allow people everywhere to browse the collection, view photos, and access detailed records, just like in top museums around the world. The project is replacing the old, cumbersome Excel spreadsheets with a proper museum-standard cataloguing system. Each piece is now assigned an accession number, the universal method museums use to organise their collections. We’re using the Catalogit platform, and while it's still early days, you can already get a glimpse here: https://hub.catalogit.app/16348/folder.
Expanding Our Space
We’re actively looking for a dedicated space to host more origami workshops. The museum’s library and archive have grown a lot over the years, and we need room to properly organise them. Having a larger space will also open up opportunities to bring in more instructors and offer more activities to the community.
New Additions to the Collection
This year, we welcomed new works from Cekouat León Peralta (Mexico) and Fabio Correa (Colombia), both of whom visited the museum in person. Perla Myers, from San Diego, made a special trip to bring us pieces from Arnold Tubis’ collection, including letters, documents, and a stunning set of bookmarks made by the late Toshi Takahama.
We also received a fascinating donation from Michio Valian, the nephew of Roy Iwaki. Along with Iwaki’s works, he gifted us stencils and documents that reveal the creative process behind Iwaki’s signature curved-folding masks.