Seoul National University Museum of Art, Art museum at Seoul National University, South Korea
Seoul National University Museum of Art is an art museum located on the university campus in Seoul, featuring multiple exhibition spaces within a modern glass-clad building. The venue spans roughly 4500 square meters and displays contemporary artworks in a clearly organized architectural design.
The building began as a professor's concept in 1995, was constructed in 2004, and opened in 2006. Its creation marked an important step in modernizing the university's approach to presenting art.
The museum runs education programmes for Gwanak-gu residents and university members, including art courses and a museum management academy run with the district office. Each exhibition also recruits cultural volunteers who guide visitors and receive volunteer certification. Its opening show in 2006 was titled Invitation to Contemporary Art.
You can reach the museum by taking buses 5511 through 5518 or the metro Line 2 to Seoul National University Station. The campus sits on a slope, so it helps to get oriented before arriving to find your way to the building.
Rem Koolhaas took the commission after Samsung Foundation of Culture officials surveyed the site with him in 1996. The museum is cantilevered on a concrete core, so the U-glass shell appears to float above the slope. The auditorium uses that same incline, with ramped seating instead of a flat floor.
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