Mino Washi Akari Art Hall, Washi paper light art museum in Mino, Gifu, Japan

Mino Washi Akari Art Hall is an art museum in Mino that focuses on light sculptures made from traditional Japanese paper. The building has two floors with changing permanent displays and temporary installations that show different techniques of illuminated paper art.

The building was constructed around 1941 as the Mino Town Industrial Hall and was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2005. It now houses a museum that recreates the Mino Washi Akari Art Exhibition held each October in the Mino-machi Traditional Buildings Preservation District.

The hall recreates the Mino Washi Akari Art Exhibition held each October in Mino's preserved district of traditional buildings. Paper lanterns and light works made for that event are displayed year-round on the second floor, so visitors can see the festival's paper-and-light pieces outside the autumn dates.

The hall stands in Mino's Mino-machi district, about 15 minutes on foot from Mino-shi Station on the Nagaragawa Railway Etsumi-Nan Line. The building, a former industrial hall from around 1941, has a shop and rest area on the ground floor and the exhibition rooms upstairs.

The building itself is a former Mino Town Industrial Hall erected around 1941 and registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2005, so the museum's home is older than the paper-light exhibition it houses.