The museum, which came up with the famous animator Hayao Miyazaki, owned the most famous animation studio in Japan - Ghibli (Studio Ghibli). The museum is located in the southwestern part of the park in the city of Mitaka Inokashira, which is located in the west of the prefecture of Tokyo. The museum inaugurated in September 2001.

Miyazaki, one of the founders of the studio, designed the building as if to draw it for his next film. He conceived it so that the premises and also become part of the museum, where guests are greeted Totoro anime characters, animal-transport Catbus and others. The first thing visitors see the museum, Miyazaki is a quote that guest - the main character in a fairy tale, which is the Ghibli Museum.

The exposition of the museum is full of surprises and mysteries. Travel on it resembles the movement through a maze, and anime characters appear suddenly as if popping out of the ground. The permanent exhibition "The birthplace of the film" presents the tools and materials to create anime. One of the museum's floors set aside for a story about the history of animation. You can see the layout of the studio and get acquainted with the process of making a film. The garden on the roof of the museum is located a robot from the film "Castle in the Sky", and on the Côte-bus you can jump in and take pictures. At the museum there is also a cinema "Saturn", it shows the short cartoons by the studio.

The museum Ghibli exhibitions devoted to different studios and artists. For example, in 2003-2004, an exhibition of works of Russian animator Yuri Norstein, author of "Hedgehog in the Fog." There was also an exhibition dedicated to the studio Pixar.

The museum is accessible by reservation of tickets. The fact that the museum put the daily limit the number of visitors - less than 2400. At the same time in the museum can be located up to 600 people. These limits are for the sake of the guests so that they can best see the exhibits.