Tteok Museum, Rice cake museum in Jongno District, Seoul, South Korea

The Tteok Museum in Waryong-dong, Jongno District, Seoul, was founded by Yoon Sookja of the Institute of Traditional Korean Food and opened in December 2002. It displays about 2,000 old Korean kitchen utensils, from ancient maetdol grinding stones to early 20th-century kitchenware, and exhibits 50 of Korea's nearly 200 types of tteok (rice cake).

The museum was founded in 2002 to document and preserve the traditions of Korean cooking. It grew from the wish to record knowledge about traditional cooking techniques and ingredients for future generations.

The museum exhibits 50 of Korea's nearly 200 types of tteok, rice cakes made from steamed rice flour and shaped by hand or in molds. Founder Yoon Sookja, a researcher of Korean food, set it up so city dwellers, younger generations and foreign visitors could encounter disappearing kitchen customs and rice-cake foods.

The museum is open Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 18:00, with last entry at 17:30, and closed on Sundays, Seollal and Chuseok. The permanent exhibition is on the second floor and special exhibitions on the third. Groups of 20 or more can book a guided tour lasting 30 to 40 minutes.

The museum opened in December 2002 as the Tteok and Kitchen Utensils Museum and was renamed Tteok Museum in 2008. It was founded by Yoon Sookja, head of the Institute of Traditional Korean Food, which still runs it as a private museum in Waryong-dong, Jongno District.