Handok Medical Museum Receives Commendation from Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism

Exterior view of Handok Medical Museum (Photo by Handok)

[Asia Economy Reporter Chunhee Lee] Handok Medical Museum announced on the 3rd that it received a commendation from the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism in recognition of its active cooperation with the National Folk Museum project and its contribution to the development of folk culture on the 31st of last month.

Handok Medical Museum is a specialized museum established in 1964 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Handok's founding. It houses a total of about 20,000 Eastern and Western medical artifacts, including six nationally designated cultural properties (treasures) and two tangible cultural properties of Chungcheongbuk-do Province. The museum continuously receives donations of medical artifacts and conducts preservation, exhibition, and research. In particular, the Donguisusebowon and Joseon Sikmulhyangmyeongjip held by Handok Medical Museum have been recognized as materials demonstrating the originality and development stages of domestic science and technology, and were recently newly registered as National Important Science and Technology Materials selected by the National Science Museum under the Ministry of Science and ICT.

Handok Medical Museum also operates various educational programs. Last year, it was selected for the educational development support project of the Folk Life History Museum Cooperation Network hosted by the National Folk Museum and developed and operated an educational program titled "Mysterious Exploration Inside the Body." "Mysterious Exploration Inside the Body" is an educational program developed by Handok Medical Museum, leveraging its characteristics as a specialized museum in the medical science field, targeting young children and lower-grade elementary school students.

Additionally, "Kids Exploration Team's Detective Notes" is a children's educational program in the form of a detective game where visitors solve problems on their own. "Dr. H's Secret Notes" is an escape room-style educational program for teenagers and adults, where participants decode the cipher left by the genius scientist Dr. H to find the ultimate medicine.

On weekends, various educational programs are conducted for different age groups. "Today, I am a Pharmacist" is a program where participants learn basic knowledge about medicine and make powdered medicine into pill form themselves, allowing them to explore career paths to become pharmacists. "The King's Medicine Box" is a program that examines the features of the nationally designated cultural property (treasure) "Celadon Inlaid Medicine Box with Pharmacy Name," a representative artifact of Handok Medical Museum, and assembles a 3D puzzle to make the medicine box themselves.

In addition, about 20 diverse educational programs such as "What is Your Blood Type?", "Heartbeat Thump! Thump!", "Stories of the Neat Medicine Cabinet," and "Fragrance Pop, Oriental Medicine Air Freshener" are operated monthly.

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