‘Somewhere Around, Salt Field’ … Busan Marine Natural History Museum Hosts Special Exhibition

Held until May 12 next year at the Fishermen's Folk Museum Special Exhibition Hall

Exhibition of modern and contemporary artifacts and salt farm photos including traditional salt and solar salt production tools

Reexamining the rise and fall

Busan Marine Natural History Museum will hold the 2023 special exhibition "Somewhere Around Busan, Salt Fields" from the 28th until May 12th next year at the 2nd floor special exhibition hall of the Busan Fisheries Folk Museum.

'Somewhere in Busan, Salt Field' Exhibition Poster.

This special exhibition focuses on traditional Korean salt, Jayeom (煮鹽), showcasing traces of Busan's vanished salt fields and excavation results of the Myeongji salt farm site, while exploring why the salt landscapes that could be seen in Busan until the 1950s disappeared.

Salt production tools.

In particular, this exhibition is noteworthy as the first attempt to restore and preserve the traces and memories of Busan's lost salt production industry.

The exhibition is divided into three parts. ▲Part 1, "Salt Fields, Where Nature and Humans Cultivate Together," introduces the types of salt, the conditions for salt production sites in Korea, and the tools used for solar salt production, explaining the solar salt production process. ▲Part 2, "Busan, Remembering Forgotten Salt and Lost Salt Fields," examines the history and traces of salt production in the Nakdong River estuary.

▲Part 3, "Salt Becomes Life," explores the distribution of salt, reasons for its decline, and reflects on the hardships and lives of those engaged in the salt industry. Visitors can also enjoy 36 salt production tools loaned from the Taean Cultural Center and the National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage, vivid oral history videos from donors of photos depicting the Shinho salt farm, and materials related to the Bungae salt farm.

Additionally, a salt kiln model experience space is provided, where visitors can try roasting salt themselves and compare and observe different types of salt.

Main Exhibits.

A representative from the Marine Natural History Museum stated, "Our museum will continue to discover and exhibit folk cultural content related to fishing villages that help Busan citizens and tourists better understand Busan." They added, "Since this exhibition was planned with the awareness of the preciousness of tangible and intangible materials in the rapidly disappearing modern and contemporary maritime fisheries and fishing village folk culture, we ask for the citizens' great interest and participation."

For inquiries about donations or visits, please contact the Busan Fisheries Folk Museum (a branch of the Marine Natural History Museum) by phone or visit their website.

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