“Museum Curators Do This Kind of Work” A Close Look at Busan Jeonggwan Museum

New Semester Career Exploration Experience Education Held on March 20

For Elementary Grades 4-6, Career Experience with Curators

Museum Curator Experience Activity.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] The Junggwan Museum in Busan City (Acting Mayor Lee Byung-jin) is holding a "Museum Curator Experience" event that provides children with an opportunity to experience careers in celebration of the new semester.

On March 20th at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., the program "Exploring the Museum? I am also a Museum Curator" will be operated.

"Exploring the Museum" is a career exploration education lasting about two hours, conducted directly by a curator of the Junggwan Museum for 4th to 6th-grade elementary school students. It is designed to learn about the roles and functions of museums and to experience the work of a museum curator.

Before the experience, participants will listen to an explanation about what a museum is and what kind of work is done there, taking time to understand the museum.

They will also have a general explanation and Q&A session about the curator’s role, duties, fields, and recruitment, followed by a curator career exploration activity.

The experience consists of three activities: ▲artifact restoration ▲artifact management ▲exhibition planning.

Museum curators find and remove causes of damage to prevent artifacts from deteriorating further and restore them as closely as possible to their original state. In the artifact restoration experience, participants directly restore broken pottery (tea bowls), allowing them to experience this work firsthand.

In the artifact management experience, participants can experience the curator’s work of safely protecting and managing artifacts made of various materials that are sensitive to temperature and humidity.

Participants vacuum-pack metal artifact substitutes themselves to learn how artifacts are managed against corrosion and external shocks.

In the exhibition planning experience, participants decide on the exhibition theme, content, artifacts, and displays, and experience the process of exhibiting them according to the planning intent.

After listening to explanations related to the exhibition planning sequence, participants create their own small exhibition hall using clay-made pottery and explain their exhibition to friends.

Applications for the education program will be accepted online through the Junggwan Museum website starting at 10 a.m. on March 15. Each session is limited to 10 participants on a first-come, first-served basis.

Park Jae-hyuk, director of the Junggwan Museum, said, “This will be a time to increase understanding and familiarity with museums and to consider various career directions.”

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