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Busan Museum of Art × Democracy Park Collaborative Family Education Program “Memory Map – Stories That Connect”

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Busan Museum of Art (hereinafter referred to as the Museum) announced that it will operate the educational program Memory Map – Stories That Connect (hereinafter referred to as the Program) for families with elementary school children. The Program will be held every Saturday from October 18 to November 22 at the Education Experience Room of the Archives at Democracy Park.

Participants can take part in the Program by sharing different personal memories experienced in the same location. On a provided map of Busan, children will first record their memories visually, and parents will later overlay theirs, allowing for comparison and connection across generations. Through these activities, personal experiences accumulate into family memories, and the collective memories of many families expand into the memory of the city.

In addition, this Program is linked with the exhibition Commemorating the Democracy Archives: Building a House of Records (hereinafter referred to as the Exhibition) at Democracy Park. The Exhibition highlights the value of democracy through democratization movement archives and works of people’s art, conveying the meaning of past memories becoming present records that expand into values for the future.

The Museum collaborates with Democracy Park to connect the meaning of the Exhibition with the personal and family experiences of participants. This aims to help participants newly discover and share the meaning of records in their daily lives.

Furthermore, the “City Memory Map” created through the Program will be produced in VR and video records. These records will be exhibited in the Interactive Viewing Room at Democracy Park, as well as through online social networking services (SNS), and will be archived as community records.

The Program will accept advance applications starting at 10:00 a.m. on September 29 through the official website of the Museum (art.busan.go.kr), and anyone may participate free of charge.

For more details, please visit the website or contact Busan Museum of Art (☎ 051-740-2686 / 4241).

Seo Jin-seok, Director of Busan Museum of Art, stated, “Writing history is not simply about looking back on the past, but about reconstituting it as a living record in which families and generations share experiences, linking the present with the future. This educational program provides participants with a small opportunity to realize that the subject of history is not ‘others,’ but ‘oneself.’”