Seoul Museum of History

09/12/2024

방금 War Childhood Museum의 우수 팬으로 인정받았습니다! 🎉

06/12/2024

💍Special Exhibition: Marriage Stories of Seoul Families Across Three Generations💍

The Seoul Urban Life Museum is holding a special exhibition to provide a glimpse into the marriage culture of Seoulites, spanning from the post-liberation period to the present day. 🫶

From Seoul's first modern wedding to traditional ceremonies featuring hanbok and wedding veils in the 1950s, and today's weddings captured in vlogs, visitors can explore how wedding ceremonies, gifts, and honeymoons have evolved over time.

Spend quality time with your family as you delve into the marriage stories of Seoul families! 😽

📅 Nov. 8, 2024–Mar. 30, 2025
📍 4F, Special Exhibition Hall, Seoul Urban Life Museum

05/12/2024

📸 Special Exhibition: The Records of This Place At That Time – Shanty Town of Cheong Gye Cheon 📸

The Cheonggyecheon Museum is currently presenting a special collection of artworks that tell the story of a vanished shanty town from the 1960s and 1970s.

The 80 photographic works vividly depict the impoverished living conditions along with the resilience of the people in order to live on, telling the story of the lives of those individuals and the bygone town.

Let’s time travel and recollect the memories of the old Cheonggyecheon area! 😊

📅 Exhibition: Nov. 15, 2024–Mar. 30, 2025
📍 Location: Special Exhibition Hall, Cheonggyecheon Museum

04/12/2024

📜Certificate of Meritorious Subject Issued to Cheo Yu-ryeon, Our Treasure Containing the History of Joseon's Founding📜

At the ongoing My Treasure, My Heritage exhibition at the Seoul Museum of History, you can view the Certificate of Meritorious Subject Issued to Cheo Yu-ryeon, designated as our valuable treasure.😇

This certificate has been produced in 1395, and contains the process of Joseon's founding and the rewards for meritorious subjects. It is an important historical artifact for understanding the early political history of Joseon. Recorded on a vast 635 cm mulberry paper, this valuable certificate includes the merits of the meritorious subjects, reward details, and signatures of officials, and was donated by the Seoul branch of the Daegyeong lineage of the Gangneung Choe clan.✨

Discover the story of the founding of Joseon's through this precious artifact, and vividly experience the history from 600 years ago!

04/12/2024

02/12/2024

📜 Woodblocks from the Collected Works of Confucian Scholar Kim Dae-jin 📜

At the ongoing My Treasure, My Heritage exhibition at the Seoul Museum of History's Special Exhibition Hall, you can view the Woodblocks from the Collected Works of Confucian Scholar Kim Dae-jin, designated as Seoul's Tangible Cultural Heritage.🤗

Crafted in the traditional method to produce the collected works of Kim Dae-jin (1800-1871), who inherited the academic lineage of Toegye Yi Hwang, these woodblocks are unusually large for a single author. This valuable artifact consists of 416 blocks in total, with 75% being the original collection made in 1889, and 25% being additions and appendices made after 1905, donated by Mr. Kim Jeong-tae, a descendant of the Jeongwa branch of the Uiseong Kim clan.✨
Experience the scholarship of late Joseon Confucian scholars and traditional printing culture through this precious artifact!

29/11/2024

✨Special Exhibition, My Treasure My Heritage✨

The Seoul Museum of History is hosting a special exhibition of donated artifacts, My Treasure My Heritage!
This exhibition sheds new light on our history through a collection of artifacts from traditional times to the modern era.

Come and explore precious artifacts, including Certificate of Meritorious Subject Issued to Choe Yu-ryeon, an 8-bit computer from Daewoo Electronics (1986), and cultural posters from the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Experience a special moment that connects the past and present, along with artifacts filled with the affection of the donors!😇

📅 Exhibition: Oct. 25, 2024–Mar. 16, 2025
📍 Location: Special Exhibition Hall, 1F, Seoul Museum of History

27/11/2024

Seoul Museum of History Permanent Exhibition Zone 4

Welcome to the exhibition where you can explore the remarkable growth and changes of Seoul since national liberation.
Seoul was completely in ruins after Korea's national liberation in 1945.
But soon after the armistice in 1953, Seoul quickly rebuilt itself through the nation's reconstruction efforts that led to Korea's economic growth in the mid-1960s.
Gangnam became a land of new opportunities in the late 1960s with the urban development of Seoul's eastern region, leading to a rise in population as prestigious schools in Gangbuk relocated to Gangnam.
Economic development erected tall apartments across Seoul, establishing apartment housing as a new, popular form of residence.
The 1988 Summer Olympics propelled Seoul forward as an international city, transforming it into a metropolis with a population of over ten million.
Since the 1990s, Seoul has improved citizens' quality of life through citywide hyper-connected infrastructure from transportation to urban green spaces.
Experience the history of change and growth through a journey that connects the past and present of Seoul.
It's time to reconnect with Seoul, the capital of South Korea.

14/11/2024

Seoul Museum of History Permanent Exhibition Zone 2&3

Welcome to the exhibition where you can see the history of Seoul.

In the mid-19th century, Joseon was at a crossroads of tradition and modernity as it faced pressure from foreign powers and internal movements for national reform.

Jeong-dong symbolized the ideology of reform of the Korean Empire and rooted itself as the new epicenter of Seoul.

Jong-ro and Namdaemun-ro took on semblance of modern urbanism, bringing new cultures to the daily lives of people living in Seoul.

During the Japanese occupation, Gyeongseong was devalued from being the capital of Joseon to a provincial city under Japanese rule, as the central area of colonial administration.

Gyeongseong was the focal point of national movements where the March 1st Movement and anti-Japanese uprisings took place.

Gyeongseong developed into a modern city as western-style buildings and trams gradually appeared, yet it undeniably remained as a place of discrimination against the Korean people.

Discover and empathize with the transformation of Seoul, a city that holds a history of coexistence and conflict.

12/11/2024

🎨Donuimun History Museum’s Mini Exhibition, Starry Village, Starry Friends🎨

A special exhibition has begun! It’s a chance for children to explore the village of their dreams through postcards! 💌
Enjoy the postcard exhibition along with hands-on activities, including drawing and puzzles with your loved ones. 😊

📍 Location: 2F AGIO Terrace, Donuimun History Museum

Travel back in time and enjoy of a day of childhood at the Donuimun History Museum! 🫶

11/11/2024

Seoul Museum of History Permanent Exhibition Zone 1

Welcome to the exhibition where you can explore the history of Hanyang, the Seoul of the Joseon dynasty.

In 1397, Hanyang was designated as the new capital of Joseon.

Urban planning comprised building palaces as well as placing Jongmyo Shrine and Sajikdan Altar to establish Hanyang as the capital of Joseon.

Hanyang, which had been left in ruins in the aftermath of the Japanese invasions and Manchu invasions of Korea, was teansformed through reconstruction efforts.

Hanyang in the Joseon dynasty was fortified by city walls called the Hanyangdoseong, marking the city's boundaries.

Inside and outside of the walls, unique local cultures formaed based on the geographical conditions of each region.

Seongjeosimni developed as a peripheral area where both agriculture and commerce thrived, symbolically representing Hanyang's transformation from a royal capital to a commercial city.

Experience the history and culture of Hanyang, the capital of the Joseon dynasty, and take a journey into the history of Seoul.

08/11/2024

🍁Gyeonghuigung Palace is colored in autumn foliage!🍁

Come visit the Seoul Museum of History and see Gyeonghuigung Palace colored in autumn foliage!🍂
Take a stroll around the palace as you feel the cool autumn breeze and the quiet autumn scenery.
Let’s welcome autumn and enjoy the season to the fullest at Gyeonghuigung Palace! 📸