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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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The model hall inside the Incheon Urban History Museum, where a large scale model of the city fills the floor beneath lit skyline panels

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

  1. 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.

  2. October 2009

    Renamed Compact Smart City

  3. January 2014

    Taken over by Incheon Metropolitan City Museum

  4. 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.

Incheon Urban History Museum — history of the museum ·

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.

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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