The Museum, which came up with the famous animator Hayao Miyazaki, belongs to the most famous animation Studio in Japan – Ghibli (Studio Ghibli). The Museum is located in the southwestern part of the Park Inokashira in the city of Mitaka, which is located in Western Tokyo Prefecture. The Museum officially opened in September 2001.

Miyazaki, one of the founders of the Studio, designed this building as if he painted it for his next film. He planned it so that the room and also became part of the Museum, where guests are greeted with a heroes anime Totoro, animal-transport Catbus and others. The first thing you see visitors to the Museum, this is a quote Miyazaki that the guest is the main character of the tale, which is the Ghibli Museum.

The exposition of the Museum is full of surprises and mysteries. The journey for him is reminiscent of the movement through the maze, and the anime characters appear suddenly, as if popping out of the ground. Permanent exhibition "the birth Place of the film" presents the tools and materials to create anime. One of the floors of the Museum is dedicated to telling the stories of animation. You can see the layout of the Studio and get acquainted with the process of creating the film. In the roof garden of the Museum is the robot from "Laputa, castle in the sky", and on the cat bus, you can jump and be photographed. The Museum has its own cinema "Saturn", it showed a short animation created at the Studio.

Also in the Ghibli Museum exhibitions, dedicated to other studios and artists. So, in 2003-2004 there was an exhibition of works by Russian animator Yuri Norstein, the author of "Hedgehog in the fog". There was also an exhibition dedicated to Pixar.

In the Museum you can get by pre-ordering tickets. The fact that the Museum introduced a daily limit of the number of visitors to no more than 2400. At the same time in the Museum can be located up to 600 people. Such restrictions are introduced for the sake of the guests, so they can better see the exhibits.