Origami Museum

About

Museo del Origami is a non-profit institution in the historic district of Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, devoted to the art of paper folding, or origami. The museum is part of Uruguay’s National System of Museums and Museographic Collections (Sistema Nacional de Museos y Colecciones Museográficas del Uruguay).

The museum presents both the history of origami and its contemporary uses in areas such as art, science, and design.

It opened in 2020 as a small, independent cultural project in Colonia’s Barrio Histórico, a colonial World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

It is one of only two origami museums in the Western Hemisphere and the only one in the Americas.

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