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EDUCATIONAL
MUSEUM
ORIGAMI
ZARAGOZA


A place of meeting for origami creators and lovers who want to share knowledge and skills in relation with the artistic paper folding.


* The Educational Museum of Origami in Zaragoza (EMOZ) has chosen the Japanese word origami, instead of the Spanish "papiroflexia", for being the international denomination that the paper folding is known with.

Papiroflexia (From papyrus, paper, and the lat flexus part pas de flectêre) 1. f Art and skills of giving to a piece of paper the shape of living things and objects, making convenient foldings. (Royal Spanish Academy)

Origami (From ori , "folding", and kami "paper") is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding.

First was the fold. From a infinitely small «spatiotemporal singularity» packaged, the Big Bang triggered a "cosmic unfolding".

When human being had ductile, flexible and resistant materials, he needed to try them for its efficient transporting and storing. As the flexibility of the materials grew, they could submit them to foldings more elaborated for an utilitarian end.

Innovation of paper triggered a qualitative increasing. The properties of paper let ceremonial, recreative, geometrical, mathematical, educational and artistic foldings join to the utilitarian one.

In Educational Museum of Origami in Zaragoza (EMOZ), visitors can see paper and folding techniques through history. They may apreciate all this work from simple models to the most difficult ones, from ancient works to actuals folded by their original authors, come from every part of the world. They will enjoy, as well, temporary exhibitions of a variety of artists and thematics, with a large point of view of origami and related aspects.

Objectives of EMOZ are: make a continuous educational activity, be a worldwide origami reference and work as a center of exchange ofknowledge, diffusion and progression in folding and its applications.

In EMOZ everybody can sign up to workshops and classes to learn models of every level of difficulty, paper treatment techniques, usages of folding to design and other arts, etc.

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