A Day Trip to Chuncheon: Exploring the Chuncheon National Museum
Happy Saturday, neighbors!
My husband and I are on a 1-night, 2-day trip to Chuncheon.
We finally got out for some fresh air!
The weather had been too hot to go out, but it's cooled down a bit lately, so we decided to take a trip with my dear husband.
We visited the Chuncheon Samaksan Lake Cable Car first, and then the Chuncheon National Museum.
The Chuncheon National Museum is comprised of the main building and a children's museum.
The Chuncheon National Museum is a national cultural institution that showcases the cultural heritage of Gangwon-do in one place.
The Chuncheon National Museum is a complex cultural space that encompasses the history and culture of Gangwon Special Autonomous Province. It researches, exhibits, educates, and hosts various cultural events to discover and promote the origins and characteristics of Gangwon's culture. It opened on October 30, 2002, and is a leading museum in Gangwon Special Autonomous Province, housing 120,106 artifacts. It has permanent exhibition halls, brand halls, special exhibition halls, and outdoor exhibition halls. It showcases the history and culture of Gangwon Special Autonomous Province from prehistoric times to the modern era in an easy-to-view format and hosts various themed special exhibitions.
The modern main building of the Chuncheon National Museum, which harmonizes with nature, won the '25th Korea Institute of Architects Award' in 2003. In October 2020, the Children's Museum, a space where children can enjoy physical, emotional, and communicative play based on the theme of 'Children and Nature,' was opened for the first time in the Gangwon region. In December, a realistic video cafe was opened, featuring beautiful videos of Gwandong Palgyeong and the Five Hundred Arhats of Changnyeongsa Temple Site on a 28m-wide super-sized screen. As such, the Chuncheon National Museum is a museum where the whole family can enjoy new museum experiences.
The parking lot is spacious and very easy to park in.
First, let's go to the exhibition hall (main building).
Inside the main building:
The Chuncheon National Museum is a free travel destination where you can experience the history and culture of Gangwon-do. You can watch realistic media art every hour on the hour.
There are also many seats available, so you can sit comfortably and enjoy the realistic media art.
My husband and I were completely immersed in the media art!
The realistic video using media art is shown on a 28m-long super-sized screen in the first-floor lobby. You can watch magnificent videos of WolSongjeong, Mangwonjeong, JukSeoRu, Gyeongpodae, Naksansa Temple, Cheongganjeong, Geumgangsan Mountain, and the Five Hundred Arhats of Changnyeongsa Temple Site for 25 minutes.
Here's a robot roaming around the museum!
The kids love this!
Let's take a look around the exhibition hall.
Various cultural properties and relics from different eras are on display, which is helpful for studying history.
And if you go out to the outdoor garden, you can see a three-story stone pagoda and dolmens.
You can see various cultural properties excavated from archaeological sites in various regions of Gangwon-do from prehistoric times to the modern era all at once.
In the brand hall, the Five Hundred Arhats excavated from the Changnyeongsa Temple Site in Yeongwol in 2001 are on display. Nahan is an abbreviation of 'Arhat', which means a person who has attained eternal wisdom by transcending life and death through training. You can spend time appreciating works with various expressions, such as Nahan telling a story, Nahan in training, and Nahan with a smile.
And I also went into the children's museum across the street.
The children's museum is a place where children can have fun drawing and playing.
I'm going to take my cuties there later!
After visiting the Chuncheon Samaksan Lake Cable Car, we thoroughly explored the Chuncheon National Museum.
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