The National Maritime Museum of Korea () 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 navy, navies and the m ...

and the third largest museum in the South Korea.해양한국 역사 한눈에

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. 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'' (district) 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 U ...

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. 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

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. Retrieved 10 July 2012.

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

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