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Busan’s Museums Gather in One Place! Busan Museum to Host the “2025 Museum Harmony Education Festival”

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Busan Metropolitan City Museum (hereinafter “Busan Museum”) announced that it will host the 2025 Museum Harmony Education Festival from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on November 8 at the museum’s outdoor plaza.

Outline of the 2025 Museum Harmony Education Festival

• ●Date & Time: November 8 (Sat), 13:00–17:00

• ●Venue: Outdoor plaza of Busan Museum (event booths)

• ●Participants: Approximately 1,000 citizens, including elementary school students

• ●Program Content: 18 unique hands-on educational programs from 16 member institutions of the Busan Metropolitan City Museum Association

• ●Registration: On-site registration available for 10 minutes at the start of every hour from 13:00 to 16:00 (13 booths, four sessions in total). Participation is free of charge.
  Five additional booths will be open to all visitors without registration.

The “Museum Harmony Education Festival” is an event where visitors can enjoy diverse experiential learning programs offered by 16 museums and art museums affiliated with the Busan Metropolitan City Museum Association, including the Busan Museum itself.

Launched in 2009, the festival aims to promote Busan’s museums and art museums and to provide citizens with distinctive educational and cultural experiences.

This year’s festival will feature a variety of hands-on programs, including:

• ●Busan Museum’s Making a Relic Character Canvas Bag and K-Culture Experience (Costume of Saja Boys)

• ●National Memorial Museum of Forced Mobilization under Japanese Occupation’s Starry Night Mood Light Making

• ●Busan Marine Natural History Museum’s Fish-Shaped Wind Chime (Doorbell) Craft

• ●Beomeosa Temple Seongbo Museum’s Don’t Worry, My Friend! (Worry Doll Making)

A total of 18 educational programs will be available from 16 institutions, all free of charge. The festival welcomes participants of all ages—from young children to adults—making it an enjoyable family-friendly event.

Participating Institutions (16)
Busan Museum, Bokcheon Museum, Jeonggwan Museum, Busan Modern & Contemporary History Museum, Provisional Capital Memorial Hall, Busan Marine Natural History Museum, National Memorial Museum of Forced Mobilization under Japanese Occupation, Sasang Museum of Local History, Beomeosa Temple Seongbo Museum, Busan Museum of Movies, Capital Market History Museum, Pukyong National University Museum, Pusan National University Museum, Seokdang Museum of Dong-A University, Dong-Eui University Museum, and Dioti Museum of Art.

The festival will operate in four rounds, with on-site registration held for 10 minutes at the beginning of each hour from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Each booth will accept 15–20 participants per session, while five booths will remain open throughout the day without prior registration.

A Busan Museum representative noted, “Heavy traffic is expected around the museum on the day of the event. As the museum is located about a 10-minute walk from Daeyeon Station (Busan Metro Line 2), we kindly ask visitors to use public transportation whenever possible.”

For more information, please refer to the notice section of the Busan Museum website or contact the museum’s Education and Public Relations Team at 051-610-7181.

Jeong Eun-woo, Director of Busan Museum, stated, “This festival is a cultural celebration created through the collaboration of local museums and citizens. We will continue to provide diverse educational and experiential programs so that museums can become a natural part of citizens’ everyday lives.”