Busan Museum

Busan being one of the oldest cities of Korea has invaluable collections of materials from prehistoric times. And the famous Busan Museum is the place, where those fascinating archeological relics, paintings, ceramics, and other cultural assets are preserved as well as exhibited.

The Busan Museum, which was built with the purpose of preserving the history and culture of Busan was opened on September, 1978. Along with rest rooms, lounges, souvenir shops etc. the Busam museum has several exhibition halls, which are divided into Permanent exhibition halls and planning exhibition halls depending on the nature of contents they possess. The 6 Permanent exhibition halls are to display same contents all the time. Dongsam-dong Shell Midden exhibition hall, displaying major sites of Korean Neolithic Culture is one of the important permanent exhibition halls. The halls displaying the remains found in the extraordinary Bokcheon-dong Tombs provides significant information about the Korean and Japanese culture. In the Planning exhibition halls, exhibitions are planned to show contents of a particular age or field, locality etc (for example exhibition of the ancient Egyptian civilization.).

The major excavation sites of the Busan Museum are Deokcheon-dong old tombs, Nopo-dong old tombs, Dugu-dong Imseok(wooden stone) site, Gadal old tombs, Mandeok-dong field of death, Danggam-dong ruins of a fortress, Haeundae Paleolithic site, Guemdan-point Boseongji, Cheonggangli tombs, etc. To promote cultural development and research activity Busan Museum does scientific and cultural research and publishes research reports on the excavated sites and widely distributes among different researchers, libraries, experts and other related museums.

Location:
948-1, Daeyeon 4-dong, Nam-gu

Museum Hours:
Mar - Oct.: 09:00 - 18:00
Nov – Feb: 09:00 - 17:00
The ticket office closes one hour before the museum

Closing Days:
Jan. 1 and Mondays
(or the following day if Monday is a national holiday) \

Admission Fee:
- Adult ?500 (Group ?300)
- Youth (13~19), Soldier ?300 (Group ?200)
- Children (12 and under), disabled and senior
citizens (overage 65) free
- Note : A group consists of 20 or more people.
Every Saturday free

How to get there:

Bus - from Busan Station, Nampo-dong / No. 134
- from Seomyeon, Gaya / No. 25, 68, 93
- from Haeundae / No. 139, 239, 302, 240
- from Dongnae / No. 51
Subway - Line 1 : get off at Seomyeon stop?
..........transfer to Line 2? get off at Daeyeon stop ?
..........10 minutes walk to the Museum
- Line 2 : get off at Daeyeon stop

Telephone:
624-6341