Museum SAN

The Museum SAN is located in Oak Valley, in the mountains of Wonju, South Korea. It was designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando and is under the administration of the Hansol Cultural Foundation.

Paper gallery

The Hansol Paper Museum opened in 1997. It was named for Hansol Paper, the founding company of the Hansol Cultural Foundation.This collection, which includes hair ornaments and maps made of paper that feels like animal skin, now forms one of the permanent exhibits at Museum SAN.

James Turrell

James Turrell is known as an artist who "paints with light". Five exhibits by Turrell are permanently on exhibit in a separate building. The exhibits are: Wedgework, which uses projected light to give the illusion of walls; Ganzfeld, which uses light to eliminate depth perception; and three exhibits, Skyspace, Horizon Room, and Space Division, that involve viewing the sky or a light-filled room through an aperture in the ceiling or wall.

Temporary exhibits

The art collection comes from the private collection of Lee In-Hee, an advisor to the Hansol Group and the daughter of Lee Byung-chul (the founding chairman of Samsung). This collection focuses on Korean art after 1945 and forms the basis for many of the museum's biennial exhibitions.