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Busan Museum Renovates and Relocates Its Donated Collections Gallery to the Second Floor

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Busan Museum announced that it has renovated the art gallery on the museum’s second floor as the Donated Collections Gallery, providing visitors with more convenient access to a diverse range of donated cultural heritage, and will operate the gallery on a permanent basis.

The Donated Collections Gallery is a space that introduces cultural heritage donated by individuals, families, and clans to the public and shares the values and intentions of donors who wished to preserve and share their treasured cultural heritage with society.

The former Donated Collections Gallery was located on the museum’s first floor and faced difficulties in maintaining continuous operation, including frequent closures and prolonged gaps between exhibitions as the scale of special exhibitions expanded. To present donated cultural heritage more consistently and enable visitors to view it at any time, the museum has relocated the gallery to the second floor.

Since opening in 1978, Busan Museum has received approximately 19,000 artifacts through the generosity of donors. The newly established Donated Collections Gallery presents 213 carefully selected items from this collection.

The exhibition encompasses donated cultural heritage from a wide range of periods and fields, from traditional artifacts such as ceramics, paintings, and clothing to materials documenting everyday life in the modern and contemporary eras, including tableware and photographs.

Through the exhibition, visitors can explore the history of Busan Museum, which has grown through donations, understand the significance of its collection, and appreciate the value of donated cultural heritage.

The exhibition also brings together a variety of designated cultural heritage items, including one of Busan Museum’s signature artifacts, the National Treasure Gilt-bronze Standing Bodhisattva.

Items on display include the Treasure Large White Porcelain Jar and Portrait of Ban-gok Yi Deok-seong; the National Registered Heritage Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Korea and Typewriter Used by Seo Yeong-hae; the Busan Tangible Cultural Heritage Landscape Painting by Kim Hong-do and Woodblocks for Dokrye Jibyo; and the Busan Folklore Cultural Heritage Ceremonial Attire of Park Gi-jong and Ceremonial Sword of Park Gi-jong.

The exhibition also introduces the diverse forms cultural heritage can take by displaying everyday objects that were actually used in the relatively recent past, including modern and contemporary tableware.

The display was designed to broaden public perceptions of cultural heritage by showing that not only old or exceptional artifacts, but also the everyday experiences and memories of the times in which we have lived, can become cultural heritage to be passed on to future generations.

The Donated Collections Gallery is open to everyone free of charge. For further information about the exhibition, please contact the Exhibition Operations Team at Busan Museum at 051-610-7144.

Jeong Eun-woo, Director of Busan Museum, said, “The newly renovated Donated Collections Gallery is a place where visitors can encounter the heartfelt generosity of donors who willingly entrusted treasured heritage preserved by individuals, families, and clans so that it could be shared with the public.”

Jeong added, “I hope this exhibition offers an opportunity to reflect on the value and significance of donated cultural heritage and encourages greater interest in preserving and passing on the precious objects and memories around us as cultural heritage.”