Horim Museum, Art museum in Sillim-dong, South Korea.
The Horim Museum occupies about 4,600 square metres in Sillim-dong, Gwanak District, with four main galleries: Archaeology, Ceramics, Metal Art, and Painting and Book, plus a special gallery and a souvenir shop. Its holdings number more than 10,000 Korean pieces, among them over 3,000 earthenwares, 2,100 porcelains, 1,100 celadons, 500 buncheongs, 2,000 paintings and 400 metalwork pieces.
The museum was founded in 1982 when Yun Jang-seob established the Seongbo Cultural Foundation to gather a collection of Korean artworks. It later relocated to Sillim-dong, where it became a permanent home for preserving these pieces.
The collection holds 8 national treasures and 35 treasures, among them a copy of the First Tripitaka Koreana, a Goryeo woodblock canon that documents early Goryeo Buddhism and its foreign relations. Earthenware from the Bronze Age to Goryeo shows the development of Korean pottery, while celadon, buncheong and white porcelain illustrate Goryeo and Joseon daily life and social structure.
The museum is in Sillim-dong, Gwanak District, with a branch in Sinsa-dong; the main building holds the four galleries, a special gallery, a souvenir shop and several rooms across about 4,600 square metres. Plan to move between the Archaeology, Ceramics, Metal Art and Painting and Book galleries on foot within the building.
Among the holdings are 8 National Treasures and 35 Treasures of South Korea. The collection also includes a woodblock print from the First Tripitaka Koreana, a Goryeo-era edition consulted for what it shows of early Goryeo Buddhism and its foreign relations.
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