The National Folk Museum of Korea was opened in 1946 as the National Museum of Anthropology with the stated aim to investigate and study Korean folk life and to acquire and preserve artefacts relating to Korean cultural life. It changed its name to the National Folk Museum of Korea in 1975. By the beginning of the […]
The Museum of Korean Embroidery is a private museum in Seoul, South Korea. It was founded in 1976 by Heo Dongwha and his wife, Park Young Sook. The museum was opened with an exhibition entitled ‘500 Years of Traditional Korean Embroidery’. The museum was moved in 1991 to its current location in the Nonhyeong-dong Gangnam-gu district of […]
The Han Sang Soo Embroidery Museum is dedicated to Korean embroidery. It was established in 2006 by Han Sang Soo (c. 1934), a master embroiderer who is regarded as a ‘national treasure’ (Intangible Cultural Asset no. 80). The Han Sang Soo museum is dedicated to promote Korean embroidery and traditional techniques, as well as to encourage new creations. The […]
The Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum is an educational, exhibition and research facility dedicated to embroidery and the textile arts, especially those from East Asia. The museum is part of Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea. The university was established in 1907 by the then Korean royal family. The Museum was established by Dr. CHUNG Young Yang and opened in May 2004. […]
The Chojun Textile & Quilt Art Museum in Seoul, South Korea, was opened on 27 October 1998 with the express purpose of preserving the traditional Korean patchwork and quilting techniques, and exhibiting comparable products from the rest of the world. […]