Gyeonggi Provincial Museum

Gyeonggi Provincial Museum was opened in 1996 to be the cradle of culture for Gyeonggi residents by finding, collecting, investigating and displaying cultural heritages scattered throughout Gyeonggi province and inherit the traditional culture of Gyeonggi province. The Museum has about 24,000 historic collections. The portraits of ancient sages and noted sages in Gyeonggi province demonstrate the development of the Confucian scholar culture since the 16th century, ancient documents verify that Gyeonggi province was the main stage of Confucian scholar culture, a quantity of Buddhist scriptures offer the means to guess at the development of printing culture in Gyeonggi province and scriptures represent the culture of Gyeonggi. In particular, the costume artifacts excavated from ancient tombs indicating the costume of the scholar- gentry and fabric research in the Joseon period are the representative artifacts in the Gyeonggi Provincial Museum.