Special Heritage Exhibitions from Korea

1. National Museum Of Gyeongju 

신라 건국 이전에 경주에선 어떤 일이 있었을까

송고시간 | 2019-10-06 08:14

국립경주박물관, 12월 1일까지 특별전

The National Museum Of Gyeongju will be holding a special exhibition "Gyeongju before the Silla Kingdom" from Oct 7th, 2019 to Dec 1st. 

 

By displaying more than 700 Lute-shaped Bronze daggers, the exhibition highlights a prehistoric Gyeongju before the Silla kingdom as a symbol of life's technology and power. 

Session 1, "Technology of Life," deals with the lives of pre-Silla Gyeongju people in respcet of tools and techniques and explains the changes in materials from stone to bronze, from bronze to iron, the first tools. It also introduces the development of earthenware made by recognizing that baking mud makes it hard. 

Session 2, “Symbols of Power,” examines how the classes of humans have arisen and how these goods have developed. The Neolithic Age, Bronze Age, and Saroguk Age are discussed in the grave size and burial process. 

Jeongchon Shoes

2. National Museum Of Naju  

마한·백제·신라 고분서 나온 금동신발 한자리에

송고시간 | 2019-10-06 09:28

국립나주박물관 '나주 복암리 정촌고분' 특별전

The National Museum Of Naju will host  a special exhibition "Tomb in Jeongchon of Bogam-ri, Naju" from Oct 8th to Jan 5th next year along with the Naju National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage. 

Back in 2014, a pair of guilt bronze shoes was excavated in perfect form at Jeongchon Burial Mound, Bogam-ri, Naju, Jeonnam Province. 

32cm long, 9cm high and 9.5cm wide, the shoes are engraved with lotus and goblin patterns on the bottom, and the back of the feet is decorated with a dragon-shaped ornament. 

The grave from which the shoes were excavated havs a stone chamber with a maximum length of 4.8m, width of 3.6m and height of 3.1m.

Inculding the Jenogchon shoes, the exhibition shows a variety of guilt bronze shoes from Backje, Mahan, and Silla cuttures.