Jeongok Prehistory Museum (director Lee Han-yong) of the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation holds three exhibitions at the same time, celebrating the 5th anniversary of its establishment. The opening ceremony takes place on April 26 (Tue), 2016, and the three exhibitions that will be open to the public from the next day will be Travelling to Prehistoric Age, Travelling to the Joseon Period, and Prehistoric Fossil Animals.

Travelling to Prehistoric Age is an exhibition that displays mainly the relics described in textbooks, including hand axes, the remains of the first humans in the Korean peninsula at the dawn of East Asia, comb-pattern pottery, the first relics designed by our ancestors, and sharp swords from the Bronze Age, all easy for students to understand.

Travelling to the Joseon Period> is an exhibition where visitors can experience a trip to Geumgangsan Mountain, the place that our ancestors wished to visit the most. The same exhibition was held last year at the National Museum of Korea, and it is held once again to celebrate the designation of the Hantangang River and Imjingang River basins as a national geopark. Geumgangsan Mountain provides such a striking view that Su Dong-pa, one of the eight great writers of Tang and Sung, said that it is his wish to have a chance to visit it, and King Jeongjo ordered Kim Hong-do, the most prominent artist of the time, to visit and draw it in order to appreciate its beauty.

Prehistoric Fossil Animals is an exhibition that satisfies our curiosity about what animals lived in the prehistoric age. The displayed animals include a mammoth, cave bear, rhinoceros with double horns, sabertooth tiger, and horses. Lee Han-yong, the director of our museum, explains that “we have prepared the exhibition with the keyword ‘travel’, as you can ‘travel’ the prehistoric age through the relics from the textbooks and also ‘travel’ Geumgangsan Mountain like a scholar in the Joseon Period. Also, Prehistoric Fossil Animals will be an exhibition that is hard to find elsewhere in the country.”