PRAUM Musical Instrument Museum (프라움악기박물관) – Homepage www.praum.or.kr PRAUM Musical Instrument Museum is designed in a European style, featuring high arches and balconies. It showcases the history of music and displays various musical instruments from around the world. Visitors have the unique opportunity to play some of these instruments and listen to their sounds. Additionally,…
Glass Island Museum (유리섬박물관) – Homepage www.glassisland.co.kr Glass Island Museum is a place where you can appreciate the works of glass sculpture artists. It comprises the Glass Island Gallery, which showcases the intricate process of crafting glass into exquisite art pieces, and the Macart Gallery, which displays a diverse array of contemporary artworks, including paintings,…
P.Atteul (Pig Museum) (피아뜰(돼지보러오면돼지)) – Homepage pigpark.co.kr (Korean only) – Tel +82-31-641-7540 P.Atteul is a petting farm where children can interact with a variety of animals, including pigs. It features a Pig Museum with more than 300 pig-related collectibles, a sandbox, a mini ball pool, a bloack playground, a picnic area, an animal ecology center,…
Taepyeongmu Instruction Hall (태평무 전수관) – Tel +82-31-676-0141 Gang Seonyeong, who devoted a lifetime to traditional dance, built the Taepyeongmu Instruction Hall at her own expense in 1998 in her hometown of Anseong for the proper initiation into, and the preservation of traditional dance. Taepyeongmu dance is a traditional court dance that embodies the continuing…
Uijeongbu Art Library (의정부 미술도서관) – Homepage www.uilib.go.kr – Tel +82-31-828-8870 Opened in December 2019, this is the first specialized library in Korea, combining a library with an art museum. The first floor has the Art Ground Exhibition Hall (small-scale space for special exhibitions). In contrast, the second floor has reading rooms and libraries, including…
Hwaseong SODA Art Museum (소다미술관) – Homepage https://museumsoda.org/ https://www.instagram.com/sodamuseum/ ◎ Travel information to meet Hallyu’s charm – “Our Beloved Summer”As the first municipal art museum in Hwaseong, a large sauna building that had been abandoned for a long time after closing was renovated into an art museum. It was featured in the drama as a…
Anseong Machum Museum (안성맞춤박물관) – Homepage www.anseong.go.kr – Tel +82-31-676-4352 Anseong Machum Museum is a theme museum showcasing the rich cultural assets of Anseong, which have evolved around a type of brassware called Yugi. Located at the entrance of Chungang University’s Anseong Campus, the museum has a brassware exhibition hall, theater, planned exhibition hall, agricultural…
Woljeon Museum of Art Icheon (이천시립월전미술관) – Homepage www.iwoljeon.org – Tel +82-31-637-0033 The Woljeon Museum of Art Icheon commemorates the great Korean artist Woljeon Chang Woo Soung and his works. The museum was originally opened in Seoul in 1991, when Woljeon donated all of his works to the Woljeon Art and Culture Foundation. It was…
Anseong Namsadang Performance Hall (안성 남사당 공연장) – Homepage www.namsadangnori.or.kr – Tel +82-31-678-2518 Namsadang is a renowned troupe that combines regional traditional arts, such as acrobatics, singing, dancing, and circus performances that originated from the Anseong area. The troupe was formed in honor of Baudeogi, a celebrated artist of the Joseon dynasty and Korea’s first…
Seongho Museum (성호박물관) – Homepage seongho.ansan.go.kr – Tel +82-31-481-2574 Seongho Museum was built by the municipality of Ansan in memory of Seongho Yi Ik (1681-1763), a great Neo-Confucian scholar from Ansan, to house his personal academic works and associated artifacts. The museum was opened in May 2002 and has on exhibit the personal handwritten materials…