Buyeo National Museum
국립부여박물관
The national museum for the finds of Sabi-period Baekje, which gives the gilt-bronze incense burner a hall of its own.
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Place information
- Korean name
- 국립부여박물관
- Address
- 5 Geumseong-ro, Buyeo-eup, Buyeo-gun, Chungcheongnam-do
Nearby
Jeongnimsa Temple Site
The site of the principal temple of Sabi-period Baekje. The temple is gone; a five-storey stone pagoda from Baekje and a seated stone Buddha from Goryeo remain, and the north-south axis running from the middle gate past the pagoda and hall to the lecture hall is still legible across the open ground.
Naseong City Wall
An 8 km wall raised to protect the Sabi capital. Taking Busosanseong as its centre, it runs east and west along the natural terrain around the outside of the Buyeo townscape. It was built of earth, and only slight traces of it remain today.
Busosanseong Fortress
A mountain fortress wrapping Busosan on the south bank of the Baengma River. It guarded the palace after the court moved to Sabi and defended the capital until Baekje fell. Nakhwaam cliff and Goransa temple stand inside it.
Buyeo Royal Tombs
Seven Baekje tombs on the south slope of Neungsan, set in two rows front and back. The ground has long been known as royal tombs, and finds from the temple site west of them reconfirmed it as a royal burial area. UNESCO lists it as the royal tombs in Neungsan-ri; the name the Korea Heritage Service uses today is Buyeo Royal Tombs.
Stories about this place
- Buyeo National Museum: One Censer Holding Twenty-three Mountains and Thirty-nine Animals
The Baekje gilt-bronze incense burner came out of a pit at a temple site between the Naseong wall and the Neungsan-ri tombs, with more than 450 other objects. It is 64 cm tall and weighs 11.8 kg. Its lid carries twenty-three mountains, and living on those mountains are sixteen human figures and thirty-nine animals. One object shows the whole of what Sabi-period Baekje could imagine.
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Where these facts come from
- Buyeo National Museum — directions (5 Geumseong-ro, Buyeo-eup, Buyeo-gun) ·
- Buyeo National Museum — official site, listing the Baekje Incense Burner Hall among its permanent galleries ·
- Korea Heritage Portal — the Baekje gilt-bronze incense burner, whose record gives the holding institution as Buyeo National Museum at 5 Geumseong-ro and carries its coordinates ·