Buyeo National Museum |
(http://buyeo.museum.go.kr)
Buyeo National Museum has a long history. It dates
back 70 years before when the foundation of preservation
for the ancient relic of Buyeo was established to
protect various Buyeo relics and artifacts of Baekje
culture. |
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Cheongju National Museum |
(http://cheongju.museum.go.kr)
Cheongju National Museum is at the foot of the Uam-san
Mountain and its address is 87, Myeongam-dong, Sangdang-gu,
Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do Province. It was opened
on October 30, 1987 to conserve and exhibit cultural
properties in Chungcheongbuk-do Province. Buildings
including Exhibition Halls, Children's Exhibition
Hall, Detached Building, Storage and Administrative
Building totaling 5,577 square meters stand on a
site of 636,415 square meter which includes a parking
lot. |
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Chuncheon National Museum |
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September 1908, when the fate of Daehan Jeguk (the
Great Han Empire) hung by a thread, the last Emperor
Sunjong established the Imperial Household Museum
at Changgyeonggung Palace. It was Korea's first
museum. |
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Daegu National Museum |
(http://daegu.museum.go.kr)
Inaugurated on December 7th 1994, the Daegu National
Museum houses approximately 30,000 artifacts of
art and archaeology. With its four exhibition rooms
(each for archaeology, art, traditional life, and
special exhibition room), the museum presents the
visitor with opportunity to explore collections
with a focus on the material from Daegu, and from
the western and northern part of the Gyeongsangbukdo
province. |
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Exhibition of Artifacts
from Royal Palaces |
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Royal Museum opened in December 1992 to serve as
a means of giving the right understanding of royal
culture and life of the Joseon Dynasty. It contains
artifacts from the royal tombs and palaces within
the city of Seoul and its vicinities. |
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Gongju National Museum |
(http://gongju.museum.go.kr)
The Gongju museum was established by the Gongju
association for relic preservation which had been
founded in 1935. Later the association became the
association for Gongju relic protection in 1938,
the Gongju branch of the national museum in Korea,
and finally it is promoted to become the Gongju
national museum in 1975. |
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Gwangju National Museum |
(http://gwangju.museum.go.kr)
The construction of Gwangju National Museum started
in 1977 and it opened to the public December 6,
1978 to embody the spirt of our nation and to develop
local culture. The building of the museum in Korean
traditional style is a building with two stories
below four above the ground. It has conservation
science laboratory and exhibition rooms of 3,500㎡.
Garden around the museum is used as an open-air
gallery. |
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Gyeongju National Museum |
(http://gyeongju.museum.go.kr/eng/index.jsp)
In 1910, a group of Gyeongju residents formed the
Gyeongju Silla Society in an effort to preserve
historic sites and relics in and around the Gyeongju
area. It was expanded and renamed the Gyeongju Historical
Association in 1913. It was the year when the Association
changed a governmental guesthouse of the Joseon
period into an exhibition hall for displaying relics. |
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Jeonju National Museum |
(http://jeonju.museum.go.kr)
Jeonju National Museum (henceforth, JNM), attached
to Ministry of Culture and Tourism, was opened as
the 9th National Museum on October 26, 1990. It
contributes to play an important role as a cultural
information center in preserving, studying, and
displaying many historic relics near Jeonju. JNM's
collecting relics came to about 24,000 items now,
which generally includes the relics of the prehistoric
period |
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National Lighthouse Museum |
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to the theory of configuration of the ground, the
National Lighthouse Museum is located in Homigot
(Cape Homi), which corresponds to the tail of the
tiger. It is the only museum dedicated to lighthouses
in Korea. In 1985, Yeongil-gun (now the city of
Pohang) opened the museum, |
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National Museum of Korea |
(http://www.museum.go.kr/eng/index.html)
In September 1908, when the fate of Daehan Jeguk
(the Great Han Empire) hung by a thread, the last
Emperor Sunjong established the Imperial Household
Museum at Changgyeonggung Palace. It was Korea's
first museum. |
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