Incheon City Begins Review of Appropriate Project Scale for Museum Park... Aiming to Open in 2025

Incheon Museum Park Bird's-eye View [Provided by Incheon City]

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyesook] A service research to review the appropriate project scale of 'Incheon Museum Park,' the nation's first complex cultural facility combining art museums, museums, and parks, has begun.

Incheon City announced on the 30th that it has started a feasibility study and basic plan establishment service research for the construction of Incheon Museum Park, aiming for completion in April next year.

The study will comprehensively review the project's appropriateness, including establishing the basic architectural plan, feasibility study for construction, preparation of design competition guidelines, and public architecture review.

The city plans to create Incheon Museum Park, including a municipal art museum, museum, and park, on a 41,000㎡ site at 587-53 Hakik-dong, Michuhol-gu, with a budget of 201.4 billion KRW by 2025.

Incheon is the only metropolitan city in the country without a municipal art museum. It opened the Incheon Municipal Art Hall, the first municipal art museum in a local city in 1946, but the museum was closed amid the chaos of the liberation period, and since then, Incheon has not had a municipal art museum.

Since 2000, Incheon City has been promoting the construction of a municipal art museum but faced difficulties securing land due to financial conditions. Eventually, it decided to build a new facility within the social contribution site of the Michuhol-gu Yonghyeon-Hakik 1 Block Urban Development Project, donated by OCI (formerly Dongyang Steel Chemical).

The city also plans to expand and relocate the municipal museum currently located in Okryeon-dong, Yeonsu-gu, to a new building within the Museum Park.

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