Kyoto International Manga Museum

Well, I really don't have too very much to offer about the museum, and there are no photos in my possession of the inside of the museum. It was primarily a grand library of manga (comic books) from the earliest days of Japanese manga—the first children's manga was published in 1905—to the present.

The museum contains exhibits of the development of the manga art form, laid out chronologically, and the library houses about 50,000 manga, spanning a period from the 1970's to the present. The visitor can purchase a yearly membership and have daily access to the manga if he/she wishes, so it really is possible to read a whole series from the "Wall of Manga."

Here's the link to the museum's web site, however, so that anyone who's a fan might have a look.

http://www.kyotomm.jp/english/

There is actually quite a bit of information on the site, though the illustrations/photos appear to be mainly of visiting exhibits.

Whod'a thunk?