Dong-A University Seokdang Museum Selected as Institution for Preservation and Utilization of Unsorted Buried Cultural Artifacts

Dong-A University Seokdang Museum has been selected as a ‘2023 Institution for the Preservation and Utilization of Unsorted Buried Cultural Properties’ by the Cultural Heritage Administration.

Hosted by the Cultural Heritage Administration and organized by the Korean University Museum Association, the ‘Preservation and Utilization Project for Unsorted Buried Cultural Properties’ supports university museums in registering and organizing unsorted artifacts stored for long periods, publishing reports, and operating exhibitions and educational programs.

Seokdang Museum of Dong-A University has been selected as a project institution four consecutive times since 2020, and this year it will receive a total project fund of 110 million KRW.

Through this project, which runs until November, Seokdang Museum plans to transfer about 1,900 nationally owned cultural properties, including the Hapcheon Bonggyeri Tomb Site excavated in 1985, and organize about 300 unsorted artifacts.

Curators at Dong-A University Seokdang Museum are organizing unarranged artifacts.

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Last year, through this project, Seokdang Museum transferred about 960 nationally owned cultural properties excavated from the Hapcheon Dam submerged area (excavated in 1987 and 1988) and the Jedeok-dong site in Jinhae (excavated in 1997) to the National Museum.

In particular, in November last year, it achieved the publication of the report ‘Stored Cultural Properties Hamyang,’ which is the result of organizing cultural properties in the Hamyang area of Gyeongsangnam-do.

Director Kim Kisu said, “Since being selected for the project in 2020, we have been doing our best to create jobs by selecting experts and systematically organize excavated artifacts and transfer them to the nation. The results will be used as research and educational materials to provide various information to the local community and related experts.”

Dong-A University Seokdang Museum holds over 5,800 nationally owned cultural properties excavated, discovered, or reported from the 1970s to the 1990s.

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