Savina Museum, Art museum in Jingwan-dong, Seoul, South Korea
The Savina Museum is a private contemporary art museum in Jingwan-dong, Eunpyeong-gu, in northern Seoul. It focuses mainly on Korean art from the 1990s onward, covering painting, sculpture, media, and digital art.
Gallery Savina opened on 6 March 1996 in Gwanhun-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul. In July 2002 it moved to Insa-dong and was renamed Savina Museum of Contemporary Art. On 1 November 2018 the museum relocated to Jingwan-dong in Eunpyeong-gu.
The name Savina comes from the gallery founded in 1996, which became a museum in July 2002. Education is central: past programmes have paired art with maths and science in "Let's Play, Logic!" and explored creativity through Picasso and Magritte, alongside career sessions for youth groups.
The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday and closed on Mondays. It can be reached by subway or bus from different parts of Seoul, and the building is accessible for visitors who use wheelchairs.
The building was designed around a triangular plot, with five floors that follow that same triangular form, and the permanent collection is built directly into the architecture. Artists and architects worked together on installations that cannot be separated from the rooms they occupy.
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