Seoul National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and National Folk Museum, South Korea
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul is a contemporary art museum with the main museum in Gwacheon and the National Folk Museum is dedicated to the history of life and culture of the Korean people.
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Branch: 30 Samcheong-ro, Sogyeok-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul
National Folk Museum: 37 Samcheong-ro, Sejongno, Jongno-gu, Seoul
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul is one of three contemporary art museum branches with the main museum in Gwacheon.
The exhibition theme below is “Catastrophe and Recovery.”





The exhibition title below is “A Miner and a Painter.”




A traditional Korean house outside the National Folks Museum. The house is moved from its original location to here for the showcase. The house was initially built in 1848.




Inside, the museum had a special exhibition on Busan during the 1950s.
The products found in the Korean Wartime in Busan, South Korea.


Permanent exhibitions.
The below picture shows the things a scholar used.

Other historical items
Articles of Village Compact, 1870.

Folding fan, 1920s.

Fishing equipment

Barley threshing equipment

Metal crafts

Shoes

Fabrics

Sawing and Iron work

New celestial charts from West

Following exhibitions shows seasonal activities.
Folding wall painting shows seasonal life activities.

Games played in a new year time

Food for the first day of a year.

Astrological fortune teller book.

Equipment for Spring farming

A depiction of the washing of body for spiritual cleansing of school teachers during Springtime.

More farming equipment.

Time for a Spring picnic.

Ramie jackets and skirt for Summer

Things used in Summer

Preparing for raining season

Food for farm workers

Time to play after hard farm work

Harvesting equipment

Making rice cake with harvested rice

Cotton weaving

Preparing Kimchi for the Winter period

Worship for house gods

Winter clothing

Braziers

The oldest Korean calendar, 1579.

Winter hunting equipment

Winter play equipment

Korean Life Passages Exhibition
A bridal room

First birthday celebration

Wedding

Bride’s Palanquin

The record of a particular person’s work during the Japanese invasion of Korea in 1592.

A personal palanquin for aristocrat.

Board games

Musical instruments

Painting equipment

Medical prescription

Medical equipment

The 60th birthday party

A bier for transporting a deceased body

The clothing for deceased

Ancestral rites
