D-MUSEUM

SEOUL | DAY 06

- Plastic Fantastic -

[Paper Present]

One of my favorite museums that I go to every time I visit Seoul is D-museum. D-museum, however, has an older sibling named Daelim Museum located near Gyeong-bok palace.

Daelim museum is a little confusing in their layout becuase it consists of multiple buildings in the same area. You would have to go buy the ticket at a different building not too far away and then go to different building for the exhibition and gift shop.

If you are planning to visit both D-museum and Daelim museums, I recommend buying a package that saves you a little but and comes with discount coupons for coffee and gift shop.

You would think that the museum shop wouldn’t have anything interesting, but it’s different here. They have a lot of good and cute things that are related to the exhibitions, so once they are gone, they are gone.

The exhibition held during this time was “Paper Present” which was held from 2017.12.7~2018.5.27. You can find more information here.

The first that greeted me was this plain sheet of paper that allowed visitors to fill in the blank for the prompt: “Paper is _______________”

For me, paper is where feelings, expressions, and experiences are written down. What about you? What is paper to you?

When we think about paper, we automatically think about words, but I think they were trying to do something different here by transforming paper into means of art.

At this exhibition, paper was transformed into birds, bowls, and even flower garden.

Rather than enjoying the art, however, I feel like Korean youths are mostly concerning about taking pictures of themselves and with art works in the background.

There is nothing wrong with that, and I feel like the artists might have taken that into consideration when they designed the exhibition too.

Maybe it’s not just the Koreans, other people seem to be so obsessed with taking a picture of themselves. I mean I do too, but doesn’t that only point out our selfishness and self-centeredness?

Daelim Museum (대림미술관)

Official website: here

Address: 서울특별시 종로구 자하문로4길 21 (Naver Map)

Hours:

Sun - Wed: 10AM ~ 7PM
Thu - Sat: : 10AM ~ 8PM

- the neighborhood -

I left the museum to stop by a coffee shop to get some coffee to fight this cold weather. The coffee shop was not too far away, and I really enjoyed the buildings in the neighborhood.

I really like Korean architecture, especially the Modernized ones. The wood and its texture make each building even more attractive.

- illsangdabansa -

일상다반사

I finally came to this coffee shop less than 5 minute walk from Daelim Museum called “Illsangdabansa (일상다반사)”. I fell in love with the interiors which gave a very quiet and calm atmosphere.