Incheon Urban History Museum
인천도시역사관
A museum on how Incheon was built and reshaped as a city. It is 300 m from the National Museum of World Writing Systems, but the two keep different Monday closing rules, so check those first if you plan to visit both.
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Place information
- Korean name
- 인천도시역사관
- Address
- 238 Incheontower-daero, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon (Songdo-dong 24-7)
- Opening hours
- 09:00–18:00 (last entry 17:30)
- Closed
- Every Mon (open if it falls on a public holiday, and no replacement closure is published — not the rule its neighbour the National Museum of World Writing Systems keeps.) · Jan 1
- Time needed
- 1 hour
History
August 2009
Opened as the Incheon Urban Planning Hall
It opened during the Incheon World City Festival as a hall on the history of Incheon's urban planning. The museum presents Incheon as what could be called Korea's first planned city.
October 2009
Renamed Compact Smart City
January 2014
Taken over by Incheon Metropolitan City Museum
December 2017
Renamed Incheon Urban History Museum
The new name marked a widening from urban planning to the city's history and development as a whole.
What to see
Modern City Gallery
The making and remaking of Incheon as a city, from the opening of the port in 1883 to liberation in 1945.
Incheon Model Gallery
A model of Incheon as it is today, with maps that trace how the city's territory grew, how its coastline was reclaimed and how its urban space changed. The gallery also has a corner introducing the people who donated objects to the museum.
Children's Gallery
The museum's website lists a children's special exhibition, Let's Go! Tidal-Flat City. Starting from the fact that the city was once tidal flat, it follows a black-faced spoonbill, a long-time resident, to find out when and how the flats became a city.
Modern City Gallery selected
Accessibility and facilities
The building has one basement level and four floors above ground. The first floor holds the information desk, the Modern City Gallery, the lobby and a café; the second, the Incheon Model Gallery, the Aam Hall special-exhibition gallery and the Soam Hall multipurpose room. The third floor has the Children's Gallery, an auditorium and an education room, and the fourth is offices and meeting rooms. The basement holds the collection storage and an underground car park.
Incheon Urban History Museum — facilities (floor by floor) ·
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Stories about this place
- Songdo Central Park and Two Museums: Closing Days, Hours and Order
Songdo Central Park, the Incheon Urban History Museum and the National Museum of World Writing Systems, compared on what you see, how long each takes and when they close, with the order to visit them in. All three are free and walkable from one another, but the museums' rules differ when a Monday is a public holiday, so only one of them opens the day after.
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Where these facts come from
- Incheon Urban History Museum — permanent exhibition ·
- Incheon Urban History Museum — visitor information ·
- Incheon Urban History Museum — permanent exhibition, Incheon Model Gallery ·
- Incheon Urban History Museum — permanent exhibition, Children's Gallery ·
- Incheon Urban History Museum — facilities (floor by floor) ·
- Incheon Urban History Museum — history of the museum ·








