Jeonbuk National University Museum, Communicating with the Community as a Traveling Museum

Experience Events Visiting Elementary Schools in Imsil Area Starting July

Museum Explores Lives of Ancestors Through Representative Recorded Cultural Heritage

The Jeonbuk National University Museum is actively engaging in communication with the local community through programs involving local residents.

According to the Jeonbuk National University Museum (Director Kim Eun-hee) on the 16th, since last month, they have been running the outreach museum program "Museum, Into the Region," providing local students with various cultural experience opportunities and receiving great responses.

This event, supported by the National University Promotion Project, aimed to increase cultural accessibility for local students by visiting Imsil Girim Elementary School on July 24 and Imsil Maam Elementary School on the 16th of this month. They conducted experiential events for all students to broadly understand record culture.

Jeonbuk National University Museum 'Visiting Museum' Experience Event.
[Photo by Jeonbuk National University]

The Jeonbuk National University Museum exhibited replicas of representative record cultural heritages such as Joseon Dynasty royal edicts, sales documents, and household registers. During the "Expert Helper" session, which included expert storytelling, students explored the significance of old documents and the lives of ancestors contained within them.

This year’s event enhanced learning effectiveness by operating an advanced course on making one’s own old book, raising the quality of the experiential program. Additionally, various educational activities such as traditional Korean printing culture experiences?including woodblock printing, woodcut printing, and printing patterns on market paper?as well as worksheet activities were conducted, meeting participating students with great popularity.

A representative from Imsil Girim Elementary School said, "It feels like a small museum has been created at our school," adding, "The outreach museum provided students with a great opportunity to have new experiences through exhibitions, education, and hands-on activities."

Kim Eun-hee, director of the Jeonbuk National University Museum, stated, "The Jeonbuk National University Museum will continue to develop sustainable content to enhance extracurricular activities and humanities capabilities of local community students, and will carry on various educational activities to expand the beneficiaries of cultural education within the region."

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