Gimpo Tea Etiquette Museum
Introduction
🗺 Location
✏ Details
Collections Status
* Ceramics: White porcelain, celadon porcelain, earthenware, etc.
* Metal exhibits: Brazier, cooking stove, rouge container, etc.
* Paintings and writings: Dongdasong folding screen that depicts a tea ceremony; folding screen portraying flowers; engraved seal, etc.
* Woodenware: Small table for refreshments to be served in a boudoir; small table for refreshments used by male scholars; octagonal table; yeonsang table; flat bench made from white paulownia tree, etc.
* Embroidery: Embroidered uigeori wardrobe (pair), wardrobe embroidered with flowers (pair), box, chest of drawers, square table, etc.
Program Information
* Tea ceremony experience: Individual tea ceremony table (hands-on experience of how to brew and drink tea), and a comparison of the tea ceremonies of Korea, China and Japan.
* Traditional folk games: Tuho (throwing sticks into a barrel), yut (board game), jegi (playing shuttlecock with the feet), neol (seesawing), rolling a hoop, making dasik (pattern-pressed candy), etc.
* Korean culture: Learn how to bow and how to wear traditional Korean clothes and accessories.
* Coming-of-age ceremony: Experience coming-of-age-ceremonies for boys and girls, and compare the ceremonies of the past and present
* Wedding culture: Wear traditional wedding clothes (men-officials’ garb and hat, women-wonsam dress, headpiece, hwarot dress, etc.) and experience a traditional wedding ceremony.
* Preparing ancestral memorial service tables: Learn how to prepare a table for ancestral memorial service for lunar New Year’s Day and Chuseok (harvest holiday) and the differences between holiday tables and memorial service tables.
Industry Information
1) Exhibition – Special exhibitions in addition to the permanent exhibition of tea ceremony utensils.
2) Event – Cultural exchange among Korea, China, and Japan; Lotus Festival; outdoor tea ceremony; hands-on experience, etc.
3) Education – Dado Museum’s culture university, classes in etiquette and tea ceremony.
4) Free education and special lecture – Special lectures on ‘etiquette and tea ceremony’ and ‘how to prepare a table for the ancestral memorial service for lunar New Year’s Day and Chuseok’ are held during summer and winter vacations.
Reservations
Available via phone call +82-31+998+1000
🔎 Information
(Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese)
• For more info +82-31-998-1000
Individuals 5,000 won / Groups 4,000 won
[Students]
Individuals 4,000 won / Groups 3,000 won
[Infants/Toddlers]
Individuals 3,000 won / Groups 2,000 won
* Groups of 20 people or more
November-February 10:00-17:00
Building area 347 ㎡
