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Keimyung University Museum

Introduction

Utmost efforts from our museum offer historical, cultural, and ancient living experiences not only to our students, but also to the public. In addition, active efforts are being made to contribute to the regional culture by serving as an advanced education center in the community.

March, 1977	Organization of museum arrangement co- mmittee and Prof. Gim Jong-cheol's inauguration of director
May 20, 1978	Joined the Korean Association of University Museums
April 1979	Started metallic relic preservation (restored gilt-bronze crown, x-ray examination)
May 1979	Opened the expanded second exhibition hall
March 1980	Established the scientific preservation laboratory
March 1981	Opened the expanded third exhibition hall
June 1981	Exhibited the late Joseon Dynasty documentary photograph
October, 1981	Held Latin America work of art exhibition
April 1982	Joined the ICOM
May, 1988	Special exhibition of Seongsan-dong tumulus
February 23, 1989	Removal of museum (Dongseo Culture Center a Daemyeong Dongsan Library 7th floor)
May 20, 1989	Special commemorative exhibition for museum transfer
May 20, 1994	Special exhibition of Songjuk-ri Gimcheon relics for 40th year of opening of our school
April 15, 1997	Opening of the museum homepage
May 22, 1998	Special exhibition of Gyo-dong Gimcheon ancient government office and hotel for 44th year of opening of our school
September, 1998	Exhibition of Daegok-ri Ulsan Bangudae stone paintings (at Seongseo Dongsan Library lobby)
October 23, 2000	Special "Ancient coins of Korea and China" exhibition of Professor Jeon Seok-gil coin donation
September 29, 2001	Accepting the blueprint for New museum
October 25, 2001	Exchange exhibition with Keimyung University/Yeungnam University of "The world of plain and line"

Museum Organization

Literary Laboratory

For effective preservation of cultural properties and figuring out the original form, scientific preservation treatment for metallic items were carried out since April 1979 and from March 1980, we established scientific preservation laboratory prior to other university museums. The objects for preservation treatment are the ones that are severely corroded among our museum's excavations and collections. However, we also treat items from other organizations. The major treatment relics were gilt-bronze crown, armor, helmet, Silver laid lotus design sword(Jisan-dong Goryeong No.32), Maju(Bokcheon-dong Dongnae), iron plate armor (Busan Metropolitan City Museum collection), gilt-bronze horse saddle blinders(displayed at our museum), helmet(Jisan-dong Goryeong No.1-3 excavated) and gilt-bronze crown(excavated at Ji-dong Andong).

Scientific preservation laboratory

Literary laboratory was established simultaneously with the museum in May 1978, which its primary operations are exhibition, research on relics, investigation and management of relics. In case of research on relics, surface investigation and excavation was held for cultural relics distributed over Daegu-city and Gyeongbuk province region annually. Especially, planned excavation was held five times at Goryeong and Seongju area of Gaya age tumulus. Since then, relics of various ages were excavated at Songjuk-ri Gimcheon, Jirye-ri Andong, Hwangseong-dong Gyeongju and Gyo-dong Gimcheon. On the basis of these excavations, research papers publication supplied important data for systemizing the ancient history and restoring the culture in this region.

Museum Development Project

1. Goals
Utmost efforts from our museum offer historical, cultural, and ancient living experiences not only to our students, but also to the public. In addition, active efforts on contributing regional culture by education with data to be an advanced education center in the community.

2. New Museum
A beautiful and functional museum design was elected in late September 2001. The new museum will have exhibition room, culture laboratory, scientific preservation laboratory, treasury, seminar room, museum shop, and museum cafe with plenty of resting room, outdoor exhibition space and social education space.
Half century of our school history and future development will be shown at the teacher's room in the exhibition room. Antiquity room, art room and folk room will be decorated interestingly with diorama, panorama and model making techniques.

3. Strengthening Social Education Function and Practical use of Cultural Space
Public information room of education has the best facilities for the experts in this field to lecture by way of audio-visual materials. The room can also be used for musical playground, drama and dancing. Comfortable resting room will make this place as a cultural area for the students and the public who visit here.

4. Computerization of Museum's data
Currently, our museum has been selected as an organization for National Cultural Inheritance of Constructing Synthetic System (Second) Project. About 4000 items are in registration progress. Continuous computerization of 10,000 items in our museum, are in progress. The information and data will be opened to the public at our Internet homepage.

5. Expansion of Scientific Preservation Laboratory
For more effective and practical preservation of cultural properties, most up-to-date equipment will be ensured for the permanent preservation by scientific treatment. Furthermore, we are willing to play an important part preserving the cultural properties by using this laboratory as a practical education center

Exhibition Contents

Exhibition room is composed of two rooms

The First Exhibition Room displays the relics that our museum has excavated such as relics from Neolithic era and Bronze Age. The relics from Neolithic Age are mostly earthen vessels and stoneware excavated from subterranean dwelling, where they are exhibited distinctively by style. Earthen vessels are comb-pattern pottery with pointed bottom and rounded bottom bowl. Vessels with no figure or pattern are rounded bottom bowl, black colored vessel and hetero-vessel. For stoneware, there are arrowhead, stone axe, plow, grinding stone, stone grinding pestle, grindstone and netting weigh exhibited. Others are excavated from outside the dwelling, which are distinctive earthen vessels. We restored a small stoneware workshop, which will help people understand how they are made in the Neolithic Age.
For Bronze Age, burnished red pottery, some non-figured bowl, pot, spindle whorl and netting weigh from subterranean dwelling and dolmen, arrowhead, stone knife, stone axe, chisel, semi-lunar stone knife, spindle whorl and grindstone of stoneware are displayed. In addition, Korean mandolin bronze sword, ball-shaped bead and tubular jade are exhibited with photos taken during the excavation.
The Second Exhibition Room displays about 3,000 ancient coins donated by professor Jeon Suk-gil of nuclear medicine in our school, ancient Chinese coins from salvaged wrecked ship in Shinan and several other Korean relics.
The coins exhibited are goods used for exchanging in prehistoric period, metal coins in the Period of the Three Kingdom, Donggukjungbo, Haedongtongbo and Samhantongbo in Goryeo Kingdom, Joseontongbo, Sipjeontongbo and Sangpyeongtongbo in Joseon Dynasty. Paehwa, Pojeon, and Dojeon in Sunjin Dynasty, Bannyangjeon of Jin Dynasty and Osujeon, Hwacheon in Han Dynasty of China are displayed also.
Although most items are from professor Jeon Suk-gil, some various kinds of examples are added, especially, those which are excavated and researched from domestic academic facilities. Comparison between ancient Korean and Chinese coins makes it possible to help the public understand the history of coins more easily.

Collection of Relics

Bowl with comb-pattern

No.6 dwelling site at Songjuk-ri Gimcheon
Neolithic era, H. 40.5cm.