National Art Museum

Earlier today, our group took the opportunity to travel to the National Art Museum of South Korea. When arriving to the museum, I did not know which building it was because there were multiple buildings around the area. And all the buildings were rather large! Knowing this, I definitely did not think that our group would be able to see all of even one of the buildings. As we walked around and up to the museum, I remember spotting the National Art Museum. It was a fairly large building in which we were not able to see every piece of work. Before going to an exhibit we found ourselves at one of many museum stores, and yes, there were more than one. Then we went on to see a few exhibits that truly interested us.

After planning out our time carefully so that we would be able to look around the largest museum store, an hour had passed in our exhibit and we headed down to the store. I was surprised to see that in glass cases there were bracelets that were 15 dollars in the same box that had rings on the other side for 300 dollars! I appreciated everything about this experience because I know that I will not be able to come back anytime soon. I would like to be able to come back to see all of the exhibits though. One exhibit that I know a lot of people appreciated was the exhibit with the Buddha statues, our little group definitely appreciated seeing it all. I feel as though there is a strong relationship between art and culture because although there may be one particular type of art, it can be interpreted in many different ways by many different cultures and that is the amazing thing about art.