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Bokcheon Museum
Bokcheon Museum is displaying artifacts excavated from the tumulus group in Bokcheon-dong that show the history of Busan from the prehistoric age to the Three Kingdoms Era. The museum opened on Oct. 5, 1996 with various structural remains and remains of earthenware and ironware from 113 tombs excavated in five surveys.
Boryeong Coal Museum
The rapid decrease in the consumption of coal since 1989 caused many of uneconomic mines to be closed pursuant to the execution of the coal industry rationalization act. The Boryeong Coal Museum is the first coal museum in Korea.
Incheon Metropolitan City Museum
Incheon Metropolitan City Museum is the first public museum in Korea opened in April 1946. The museum was established for the purposes of researching and studying the local history and the cultural assets of the Incheon Area.
HanBat Museum of Education
Hanbat Museum of Education is the sanctuary of education, history, and culture established in the oldest school building in Daejeon, Korea.
Jeju-Do Folklore and Natural History Museum
Jeju-Do Folklore and Natural History Museum is a public museum established by Jeju-Do Government as a community education institute to introduce the traditions and the natural properties unique to Jeju-Do to the inhabitants of the island as well as to the domestic and international tourists.
Korea Military Museum
The Korea Army Museum was founded to take leadership in investigating, collecting, preserving and exhibiting various kinds of historic military collections. Housed in the Korea Military Academy, the museum puts in tremendous efforts to research and education of Koreas traditional military heritage.
Kyonggi Provincial Museum
(http://www.musenet.or.kr/eng/introduction/visitor.asp)
Kyonggi Provincial Museum is collecting, researching, and exhibiting cultural artifacts within our province. Natural History, archaeology, literature, folklore life, calligraphy and paintings, donated artifacts, outdoor exhibits are some categories our museum exhibits to tourists.
Land Museum
- Fist Axe
It was excavated from Horogoru in Yeoncheon. It is a traditional Paleolithic age Fist Axe, which was well trimmed. (length :17cm)
Mireuksaji Museum
The Seoul Museum of Historical Materials of Education, a professional museum of education, opened on June 15, 1995 to define the educational situation in Seoul, lead education in Korea, and exhibit relics and data relevant to systems, procedures, contents, institutes, and activities of education for providing a comprehensive view on the development of education in Korea.
Mokpo Natural History Museum
The Mokpo Natural History Museum was opened with the goal of reminding people of the importance of nature and the value of life in the face of the ever increasing threat of the destruction of the environment and the earth's ecology.
Mungyeong Coal Museum
Mungyeong Coal Museum was founded to exhibit and preserve the data and materials concerning the role of coal, which had been the generator of Korean industry, thus revive the memories of coal industry, and to attempt to revive the dwindling economy of coal-mining area.
Mungyeongsaejae Museum
A public museum operated by Mungyeong-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do. The museum is located within the Mungyeongsaejae Provincial Park. The museum contains three exhibition halls, a central hall, an archive and a screen room on the first and second floors of building and an outdoor exhibition field.
Ojukheon & Gangneung Municipal Museum
(http://www.ojukheon.or.kr/english/index.htm)
This museum is located at the city of Gangneung, Gangwon province. The museum is consisted of the traditional Korean house of Ojukheon compound and the Municipal museum. Ojukheon is an early-Joseon Dynasty architecture which is a 3¡¿2 section building consisted of Korean style Daechong floor and rooms.
Samcheok Museum
Samcheok Municipal Museum permanently exhibits some 350 relics of its collection of four thousand artifacts in the three exhibition halls, and operates various functions including the rubbed copy experience room, the archive and the planned exhibition office.
Seoul Museum of Historical Materials of Education
The Seoul Museum of Historical Materials of Education, a professional museum of education, opened on June 15, 1995 to define the educational situation in Seoul, lead education in Korea, and exhibit relics and data relevant to systems, procedures, contents, institutes, and activities of education for providing a comprehensive view on the development of education in Korea.
Seoul Museum of History
(http://www.museum.seoul.kr/)
The Seoul Museum of History aims to be an extraordinary cultural destination in Seoul with providing an opportunity to see and experience the history and traditional culture of the nation's capital to its citizens and foreign visitors.
Taebaek Coal Museum
Coal in Taebaek was first developed in 1937 during the Japanese occupation. After the restoration of independence, Taebaek, the center of the local coal industry, had significantly contributed to the economic development of the country by playing the integral role of supplying fuel to the infrastructure industries.
The Daegaya Museum
The Daegaya Museum is located below the Jisan-dong group of tombs, where royal tombs of Daegaya are located. Dedicated to the history of Daegaya, the museum displays the history and culture of Daegaya and Goryeong.
The Early Printing Museum of Cheongju
(http://www.jikjiworld.net/)
This is the Early Printing Museum of Cheongju which is opened in March 17, 1992 on the Heungdeoksa Temple, Cheongju where printed the oldest metal printed book in the world, Jikji which old priest, Baekun excerpted". The object of this museum is for proving that our nation invented the metal type print first in the world and....
The museum of Daejeon History
The Daejeon Local History Museum was established in 1991 to preserve the historical traditions of the Daejeon Area, and to instill a deeper understanding and pride in Daejeon citizens for their hometown.
The War Memorial of Korea
Korea is a nation that has been cruelly subjugated by foreign countries throughout much of its history of more than five thousand years. Despite the rise and the fall of the native dynasties and foreign suzerains, the Korean peoples have maintained independence by devoting their lives and making tremendous self-sacrifices for the country and the people.
Wonju Municipal Museum
Wonju Municipal Museum opened in November 2000 to collect and exhibit the history and the cultural data of the Wonju area, and to act as a community education center where the local history can be taught and handed down to the younger generations.
 

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