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Duksung Women's University Museum |
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Introduction of Museum |
Duksung
Women's University Museum started with the
opening of a small exhibition room (approximately
130 square feet) on the seventh floor of Pavilion
D in the Unni-dong Campus, in May, 1971. The
museum moved to the third floor of Household
Pavilion in Ssangmun-dong Campus in 1982,
which provided total space of approximately
390 sq. ft., accommodating the folklore hall
(approx. 169), the ancient art hall (46),
a corridor exhibiting modern arts (80) and
an archive (63 sq. ft).
The museum currently has 2,344 artifacts,
a collection that originally started with
some 200 artifacts on the opening date of
the museum and reached 1637 in 1986.
The museum is a comprehensive museum preserving
archeology data, art works and fork data,
and has collected data focusing on women.
The University is planning to switch the museum
to a Museum of Life Styles in Joseon Era to
more effectively use its large collection
of folk art works and is in the process of
preparing lager exhibition space, with the
new museum planned for opening in early 2005.
The new Duksung Women's University Museum
will be divided into the art hall and the
folklore hall. The art hall will exhibit various
art works including writings/drawing, porcelains
and metal craftworks. The folklore hall will
play a major part in the Museum of Life Styles
in Joseon Era, exhibiting artifacts that are
in line with the theme of the museum, including
household items (e.g., beddings, stationeries,
tobacco devices, lighting fixtures, stoves,
chests and wooden furniture), clothing items
(e.g., garments, dressings, accessories, embroideries,
footwear and hats and caps), culinary items
(e.g., bottles/kettles, small dining tables,
brassware, spoons/chopsticks and food box
sets), and social life items (e.g., scientific
devices, printing devices, currencies/stamps,
masks, palanquins and harnesses).
The museum provides the community with opportunity
to see the life styles and the history of
women in the Joseon Era. The museum will play
an important role in enhancing the cultural
life of Seoul. |
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Representative Relics |
Jade ceremonial dress for woman |
 
Age: Near Joseon Era
Genre: Folklore relic
Application: Ceremonial dress
Size: Front length 117 cm, rear length 143
cm, sleeve
length 70 cm, back width 43 cm, and breast
width
44 cm
Material: Leno-woven fabric |
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is a ceremonial dress worn by women
in the Joseon Era, and the name is derived
from the round neckband and opened sides.
The dress is long enough to cover the
knees, and it has short front and long
back. Front adjustment is made in overlapping
form, and the sides are opened. The
design of wonsam (ceremonial dress for
women) was influenced by the board-sleeved
robe or long covert coat for women introduced
during the Ming dynasty in the early
Joseon Era. |
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Wonsams
were worn by court ladies of honor and honored
wives of officials as a formal dress, by queens,
crown princesses and wives of eldest sons
of crown princes as a ceremonial dress, and
by wives of king's fathers, court ladies and
wives of officials as a court dress. The color
of the wonsam reflected the class of the wearer:
Yellow for empress, red for queen, purplish
red for concubine, and green for princess
and aristocratic class woman.
A red wonsam for a queen has pale-yellow insert
with deep-blue hem and yellow/deep-blue cuffs
with white extra sleeves on the sleeves. A
cotton cloth with four holy dragons is also
affixed. A green wonsam for a princess has
pink insert with deep-blue hem and red and
yellow cuffs and white extra sleeves on the
sleeves. Wonsam is worn over a short-coat
and a skirt. Yellow wonsam is worn with a
dragon-patterned double-layer skirt. Red wonsam
is worn with a phoenix patterned double-layer
skirt, and green wonsam with a flower-patterned
skirt. When a court ladies wear wonsam, a
wig bridal tiara was worn on the center of
the head and a wig is mounted on the tiara
for bigger hair.
Common people would also wear Wonsam for a
wedding, however, the design was far simpler
than those for court ladies. |
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Jade butterfly Norike |
Age: Near Joseon Era
Genre: Folklore artifact
Application: Dress decoration
Size: Length: 26cm
Material: Jade |
Accessory
for woman worn on breast tie of a short
coat or skirt waist. Goryeo Dogyeong
(drawing collection) records that noble
women in Goryeo Era wore golden bells
or gold incense pouches on the waist
bands. The accessories were worn on
the breast ties when the coats became
shorter and the breast ties became popular
due to influences of clothing from Mongolia
in the late Goryeo Era.
Norike
coordinate with the colors of short
coats and skirts, as well as with the
entire outfit of the short coat and
long skirt. Norike were widely used
by all women, from court ladies, noble
class women to women of the common class,
and worn at court ceremonies and events.
Also, simple ornaments were worn on
daily basis. A woman received ornaments
as gifts from her relatives or her husband's
relatives. They were also exchanged
between friends and handed down to women.
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| Aristocratic
families bequeathed Norike to the descendents
as a family symbol. In addition, Norike varied
in their wearing locations and methods of
use depending on the season or materials and
size of the ornament: Norikes made of gold
or silver were mainly worn in autumn and winter
seasons, those of jade from the fifth day
of the fifth month of the year, and those
of Green jade from the full-moon's day. |
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Tiger-legged flower shape small dinning
table
(name
changed from dog-legged small dining
table) |
Age: Near Joseon Era
Genre: Folklore artifact
Application: Small portable dining table
Size: 27.7cm high and 45cm diameter
Material: Wood |
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short and small dining table consisting
of a round plate and dog-legged pieces
for carrying bowls. The size of the
table is convenient for holding with
two hands when carrying food bowls from
the kitchen to the living room, husband's
room or servant's quarters. The edge
of the round plate smoothly rises to
prevent the bowls from sliding off the
table. |
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| Since
the people in Korea sit on the floor, the
height of the table is typically designed
approx. 30 cm high. The Confucian culture
in the Joseon Era prohibited brothers and
sisters, or husbands and wives from sitting
together around a same dinning table. Further,
brothers did not sit together around a same
dining table if their social status was different.
In the Joseon era, there were many visitors
to houses of scholars and aristocratic families,
and a reputable family kept tens, or hundreds
of the tables. Even a common family kept ten
or more tables. |
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Lamp (lamp fixture) |
Age: Near Joseon Era
Genre: Folklore artifacts
Application: Lighting device
Size: 58.5cm high and 25.8cm x 21.3
cm of base
Material: Wood |
An
oil burning lamp. There are different
lamps depending on materials used: Wood,
earthenware, marble, white celadon,
ceramic, brassware and iron. The most
widely used lamp was the wood lamp,
and remains of the wood lamps are the
most common.
Since a wood lamps have a shorter life
span compared to those of other materials,
the remaining wood lamps are mostly
from the late Joseon era.
A wooden lamp consists of a lamp hanger
and a lamp shelf. A lamp hanger is used
for hanging a lamp on a desired height.
A lamp shelf is designed to mount a
lamp on a top plate without hanging
fixture. A typical shape of a lamp hanger
is a column with several steps on the
large bottom base to allow the lamp
to be hung at a desired height. |
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| Under
the lamp is a oil collector of various shapes:cow-horn
shape, breast shape and spittoon shape, which
collects foreign materials from the wick.
The wood lamp was the most popular indoor
lighting fixture independent of status or
wealth. |
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Tongyoung Mother-of-Pearl Combs Box |
Age: Near Joseon Era
Genre: Folklore artifact
Application: Makeup device
Size: 33.3 cm high, 32.5 cm wide and
32.5 cm deep
Material: Wood/mother-of-pearl |
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combs box is a container used to keep
combs, comb cleaning brushes and comb
cleaning sticks. (socheop is a combs
box made of oil paper. Sogap is a box
made of wood.
A typical sogap is as big as a wooden
pillow, however, sogap for women is
one foot wide with engraved legs. The
box is divided into top and bottom.
The top chest was used for keeping combs
and a bag for collecting hairs, and
the bottom chest for keeping powder
and oil. |
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| Sogap
for women is coated with red lacquer, and
that for men made of empress tress is seared
with iron to render aloes wood color. Sogap
designed in an ink stone box is covered with
oil paper on the lid, affixed with bronze
or nickel hook, and lacquer coated or decorated
with mother-of-pearl for a more luxurious
design. |
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How to Find Us |
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Coming to the museum |
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Bus No. 6, 6-1, 19 from
Suyu Station of Subway Line IV |
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Location |
4th floor of library
building in Duksung Women's University
419, Ssangmun-dong, Dobong-gu, Seoul 132-714 |
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Phone |
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82-2-901-8131~2 |
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Fax |
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82-2-901-8133 |
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E-mail |
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museum@duksung.ac.kr
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Hours of operation |
Open: Tuesday ~ Friday 10:00
~ 16:00
Closed: Saturdays, Sundays,
holidays, or other days designated by the
museum and notified to the public two weeks
in advance |
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