Welcome to
the National Museum of Korea,
where history and culture come alive and the past, present, and future coexist.

Greetings.

Since relocated to Yongsan in 2005, the National Museum of Korea has continued to improve with your love and support.

Welcome to
the National Museum of Korea,
where history and culture come alive and
the past, present, and future coexist.

• Visitors can fully enjoy its six galleries in the Permanent Exhibition Hall arranged by period and theme. These special exhibition galleries featuring various themes, diverse guided-tour programs to deepen visitors' understanding, the Children's Museum, where kids can enjoy and learn with the five senses, various educational programs, and digital contents using cutting-edge technologies. The museum is also a space for relaxation in the city. You can spend leisure time strolling through the adjacent garden, where beautiful flowers bloom according to the season. The natural scenic views you meet on a short daily outing and its superb collections will satisfy your intellectual and cultural thirst more than your expectations.

• The exhibition rooms at the National Museum of Korea are waiting for you with the footprints and traditions, including world heritage, left by a lot of people from long ago to recent ones. To name a few, in the Permanent Exhibition Hall are Paleolithic hand axes, gold crowns and the Pensive Bodhisattvas of the Three Kingdoms period, Goryeo celadon, Joseon paintings and calligraphies, which become a bridge where the past and present meet dramatically. A museum often uses exhibition as a medium to communicate beyond time and space, and we also hope that our exhibitions enable the viewers to gain and share emotions, thoughts, dreams and hopes with the people in the past through the exhibitions.

• The National Museum of Korea also tries to enhance its role in various fields, such as acquisition and conservation, for its collections and academic research as the basis of the good exhibition. In addition, we are doing our best to listen to the opinions of our visitors and to create high-quality programs that can fulfill their wishes and demands. Indeed, this museum is a living and open place that shares cultural information and assets of the museum, revitalizing the present and illuminating the future.

• The National Museum of Korea will work harder to communicate with the world by promoting exhibitions and international exchanges based on a solid identity for our culture. Today, Korea is recognized by foreigners as a powerhouse in the fields of popular culture and IT. We would like to promote that our long and sophisticated cultural tradition is their basis. At the same time, this museum will not cease to broaden our perspectives and understanding by introducing the histories and cultures of foreign countries based on universality.

• The National Museum of Korea is a resting place you can visit and relax anytime. In a modern society where everything changes rapidly, there is a museum where you can take a break and look back. We hope our museum becomes a place where you can appreciate the exhibitions without haste and enjoy your spiritual comfort, contemplate in-depth, or gain inspiration, hopefully here at the museum. Please visit us and feel the value of culture and everyday life in this peaceful venue with your family, neighbors, or yourself.

Yoon Sung YongDirector General
National Museum of Korea