Cheongju Yang’s Family and Their Descendants, as part of a series of special exhibitions of the collections donated by the noble family, opened on December 15, 2015 and closed on May 22, 2016. The elders of Cheongju Yang’s Family from throughout the nation even rented a vehicle to visit it. The exhibition was an example of how the relics that had been worn and destroyed despite careful management by individuals have been documented and reborn into public cultural assets after being donated to the museum. The conservation work is one of the fundamental reasons that Gyeonggi Provincial Museum exists.

Gyeonggi Provincial Museum planned to bring the main relics that were on display at the exhibition to Pocheon, the hometown of Bongnae Yang Sa Un, for a travelling exhibition. The Gyeonggi Provincial Museum (director Jeon Bo-sam) and the city of Pocheon (mayor Seo Jang-won) signed an MOU and have been working together to hold the travelling exhibition under the title of “Bongnae Yang Sa Un and Brothers”.

Bongnae Yang Sa Un, one of the greatest writers of the early Joseon Dynasty, is a major figure of Pocheon, where you can find his tomb and shrine, and his descendants from Cheongju Yang’s family are still living in the city forming their own village. The opening ceremony for Bongnae Yang Sa Un and Brothers, a travelling exhibition of the donated collections of Cheongju Yang’s family, will take place at 3 PM June 30, 2016, and will be held until December 31 at the special exhibition room on the first floor of the Pocheon History Museum.

The main contents of the exhibition will be the relics related to Cheongju Yang’s family residing in Pocheon: the garments, paintings, calligraphic works, epigraph, the portrait of the primogenitor Yang Gi, the relics handed down by Bongnae Yang Sa Un and his brothers, and the history of Cheongju Yang’s family as a noble family of Pocheon. Opening the travelling exhibition is quite meaningful in that it offers the chance to uncover the cultural and historical identity shared by the metropolitan cultural institution of Gyeonggi Provincial Museum and the local government of Pocheon, and the collaboration of the two. From the viewpoint of Pocheon, the event, with a small budget, will enhance the citizens’ pride as it focuses on a historical figure of the region; from the perspective of the Gyeonggi Provincial Museum, the event will be an opportunity to attract wider audiences from the northern part of Gyeonggi Province to a ‘moving museum’.