The Korea National Maritime Museum (called 국립해양박물관 in Korean) is a Korean

maritime museum A maritime museum (sometimes nautical museum) is a museum specializing in the display of objects relating to ships and travel on large bodies of water. A subcategory of maritime museums are naval museums, which focus on navies and the militar ...

and the third largest museum in the

Republic of Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its east ...

.해양한국 역사 한눈에

Segye Ilbo ''Segye Ilbo'' (; ) is a Korean language newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide ...

. Retrieved 10 July 2012. The museum was inaugurated on July 9, 2012, and is located in Dongsam-dong,

Yeongdo-gu Yeongdo District is a '' gu'' in Busan, South Korea. The ''gu'' itself is limited to Yeong-do (''Yeong Island'') located on the south edge of central Busan. It attained the status of ''gu'' in 1957. The Korea Maritime and Ocean University and t ...

Busan Busan (), officially known as is South Korea's most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.4 million inhabitants. Formerly romanized as Pusan, it is the economic, cultural and educational center of southeastern South Korea, w ...

. The museum exhibits more than 12,000 maritime relics, including the ‘ Joseon Missional Ship’ which is the largest replica in South Korea - half the size of the actual ship."Maritime history at a glance"..National Maritime Museum opens

Yonhap Yonhap News Agency is a major South Korean news agency. It is based in Seoul, South Korea. Yonhap provides news articles, pictures and other information to newspapers, TV networks and other media in South Korea. History Yonhap (, , translit. ' ...

. Retrieved 10 July 2012. National Maritime Museum in Busan, South Korea

Collections

* Ship of Joseon Envoy * Globe and celestial globe * Secret of Sea * Johaengilrok * Hamgyeong-do Coastal Map * Juk-do Jechal

References

External links

The Korea National Maritime Museum
Museums established in 2012 Museums in Busan Maritime museums National museums of South Korea Transport museums in South Korea 2012 establishments in South Korea {{SouthKorea-museum-stub

Collections

See also

References

External links