UMAC Worldwide Database of University Museums & Collections

Address:
344-2 Sinyong-Dong, Iksan, Jeonbuk, Korea

Contact:
Soon-Taek, Choi (Director)
bu5483@wonkwang.ac.kr
Phone: ++82 (0) 63 850-5456~8
Fax: ++82 (0) 63 850-732

Additional information:
Further information:
http://www.heritage.go.kr/eng/museum/uni/07/01.html

Links:
Museum of the Wonkwang University
Wonkwang University

Description:
Currently, the museum possesses approximately 17,000 of antiquities, Buddhist art, folk art, shamanism paintings, embroidery, epigraph, and paleography. The pottery, shamanism properties, paleography and embroidery are the ones that we are especially proud of presenting to you.

There are 9 permanent exhibition halls, one special exhibition room and field exhibition space around the museum with a total of 3,600 relics displayed by the times, changes, and with how people lived in the old days. Their daily life is reproduced stereophonically with food, clothing, shelter, occupation activity and religious life. Various panels and plenty of descriptions are available for facilitated understanding.

[Text from the Web site "The Korean National Heritage Online"]