Seoul Museum of History
서울역사박물관
Next to Gyeonghuigung, laying out in order how Hanyang became today's Seoul — the right first-day stop for getting the shape of the city. It closes on Mondays, which is exactly when several of the palaces are open.
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Place information
- Korean name
- 서울역사박물관
- Address
- 55 Saemunan-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03177
- Opening hours
- Tue~Thu·Sat·Sun 09:00–18:00 (last entry 17:30) Fri 09:00–21:00
- Closed
- Jan 1 · Every Mon
- Hours notes
- Friday runs to 21:00, a change the museum dates to 12 April 2024. It does not publish a separate last-entry time for the extended evening.
- Time needed
- 2 hours
- Admission
- Free
Prices
| Admission | Free |
|---|
Nearby
Gyeonghuigung Palace
Free, rarely crowded, and small enough to see properly in half an hour — the palace to add when the ticketed ones are full or already closed for the day.
Gyeonggyojang
The two-storey Western-style house that served as the returned Provisional Government's offices and its members' lodgings, from Kim Ku's arrival from China in 1945 until he was shot dead in his second-floor study on 26 June 1949. Built in 1938 as Jukcheomjang, the residence of the gold-mining magnate Choi Chang-hak, it lost its interior first to embassy use and then to a hospital, was restored from 2010 and reopened to the public on 2 March 2013. It still stands inside the grounds of Kangbuk Samsung Hospital and is run as a branch of the Seoul Museum of History.
Gwanghwamun Gukbap
A dwaeji-gukbap house working in the clear-broth style, with boiled pork and blood sausage beside it.
Sejong Center for the Performing Arts
The city-run performing arts centre across from Gwanghwamun Square, running several halls beside its main theatre. It sits where a day spent between Gyeongbokgung and Gwanghwamun already ends.
Stories about this place
- Six in Jongno, and the Evening Each One Opens
Six national and city institutions sit within walking distance of Gyeongbokgung, and no two of them run their late evening on the same schedule. The Palace Museum opens Saturday, the Seoul Museum of History Friday, MMCA Seoul and the contemporary-history museum Wednesday and Saturday, the Folk Museum on Wednesdays from March to October. Only Jogyesa publishes no hours at all.
Nearby Food
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- What the broth is made of — eight Seoul houses, seven different bases
- Northern Korean Food in Seoul: Naengmyeon, Eobok-jaengban, Mandu and Kongbiji
- Seven Seoul houses that open for breakfast — before eight in the morning
- Six Seoul houses that make the noodle by hand — kalguksu, guksi, sujebi
- Enjoying Seoul's Cafe Culture
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