Hwajinpo Maritime Museum

Being located within the Hwajinpo Tourist District in Goseong-gun, Gangwon-do, this museum consists of the three-storied shellfish museum and a fish exhibition hall. The shellfish museum displays 40,000 maritime artifacts of 1,500 types including shellfish, crustaceans, corals, fossils and taxidermied animals. The fish exhibition hall shows 3,000 aquatic creatures of 125 types according to their habitat environments and concepts. The shellfish museum and the fish exhibition hall are connected through a submarine tunnel. There are 34 water tanks including mid-to-small-sized water tanks as well as a three-stored large aquarium of 300 tons.