Commemorating International Museum Day: “Museum and Art Gallery Week”
16 Programs from 18 Institutions
Featuring Exhibitions and Educational Activities
In celebration of International Museum Day, special exhibitions and experiential programs will be held at museums and art galleries nationwide.
2026 Museum and Art Gallery Week “After the Storm, The Forest Begins Again.” Gyeonggi Provincial Children’s Museum
The Korean Museum Association announced on May 18 that, together with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the ICOM Korea Committee, it will be hosting “2026 Museum and Art Gallery Week” throughout the month of May.
“Museum and Art Gallery Week” is an annual event organized to commemorate International Museum Day on May 18. Its purpose is to highlight the social and cultural roles of museums and art galleries and to broaden opportunities for cultural enjoyment. The event has been running since 2012.
This year’s event will be held nationwide, centered around three main programs: “Museum×Enjoy,” “Museum×Stroll,” and “Museum×Meet.” Among these, “Museum×Enjoy” will support a variety of programs—such as exhibitions, educational activities, and performances—by selecting them through a public contest.
This year, 16 special exhibitions and experiential programs from 18 institutions across the country have been selected. Each institution will reinterpret their collections and artworks under the theme “Museums Connecting a Divided World,” offering programs that make cultural heritage and art more accessible to the public.
Kyo-dong Art Museum, Kim Man-deok Memorial Hall, Daegu University Central Museum, Moran Museum of Art, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Soda Museum of Art, Onyang Folk Museum, and Hanyang University Museum are organizing special exhibitions and community-based programs. Experiential programs for children and family visitors are also available. The Gyeonggi-do Children’s Museum, Animation Museum, Woo Jae-gil Art Museum, Uiseong Jomunguk Museum, Paper Kingdom Museum, Coreana Museum of Art, Korea Natural History Museum, and Hello Museum are presenting educational and hands-on content.
2026 Museum and Art Museum Week ‘After the Storm Passes, the Forest Resumes’ Poster. Gyeonggi Children’s Museum
Jung Hana, Deputy Director of Kyo-dong Art Museum, described the special exhibition “Flexible Space: Collective Breath” as “an exhibition closer to a process of staying together, sensing, and sharing questions, rather than delivering a single, complete message,” and added, “We hope visitors experience hanji as a material that changes in light, air, sound, and time.”
Park Hyerin, Curator at Gyeonggi-do Children’s Museum, said, “We focused on translating abstract concepts such as integration and coexistence into story-based and play-centered activities tailored for children,” and added, “We designed the program so that children and their guardians can naturally experience the meaning of coexistence by creating a small forest together.”
Cho Hanhee, President of the Korean Museum Association, stated, “This year’s Museum and Art Gallery Week will showcase a diverse range of content, including exhibitions, educational, and experiential programs,” and added, “We hope this becomes an opportunity for people to naturally visit museums and art galleries in their daily lives and enjoy the unique charms and stories offered by each institution.”
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