Painting room consists of five rooms. If you enter the painting room, you will be welcomed by an educational space designed to help visitors gain basic knowledge of the displayed paintings. For instance, you can see data that analyzed what types of pigments were used

in old paintings by scientific instruments, draft and final copies that show the process and the way to draw ancient pictures, picture books, which were used as study materials with pictures, the making of picture with satin or papers, and paper overlapping process, etc.

Besides this, it also gives basic information on seals, colophons, brushes and Chinese ink, and perspectives. The remaining four rooms display paintings from the Joseon Dynasty classified by different painting themes such as landscape paintings, figure paintings, genre

paintings, flowers/birds/animal paintings, the Four Gracious Plants, documentary paintings of court ceremony, decorative paintings for court, folk paintings, etc. In the Yeongdang reproduced as a replica, you can view the figure paintings of great figures in Korean history. It

is planned that a range of elective masterpieces will be displayed in the painting room to show the tradition and the process of change of Korean Paintings. Though these masterpieces, you can better grasp the noble elegance of traditional Korean painting and artistic spirits of

our ancestors while uplifting the pride of Korean culture.