One of the strangest museums I’ve come across so far in Seoul is the Museum of Chicken Art. I don’t doubt that Koreans appreciate chickens – especially as part of BBQ, but apparently the animal plays a huge role in Korean traditions.
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Yokohama was the second city besides Tokyo that I visited when I first came to Japan and back then I
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I had visited Seoul Grand Park and I wanted to go to the art museum afterwards – unfortunately the shuttle bus service was interrupted. Good thing that there was a newly opened camera museum to keep me entertained.
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The Ghibli Museum has long been on my list of places to visit and a few rainy days seemed to be the perfect opportunity for a visit.
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Cloudy weather today, so I visited a museum in the West of Tokyo: Tokorozawa Aviation Museum. Tokorozawa played an important
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Since I did decide for an evening return flight to Japan, I had some time to spare before going to the Incheon airport. First I went to the War Museum because it was conveniently located on my way to Incheon.
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Public transport in Daejeon is a catastrophe. How was the museum? Actually, not bad. Big re-imaginations of the Chinese zodiac animals are placed in front of the museums.
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I like science museums, but sometimes I would like to know what the writers of tour guides are thinking. The National Science Museum, for example, is in Korean language only.
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The museums in Seoul are remarkably cheap – entry into the National Folk Museum is free. The pagoda makes a striking first impression but most of the things are inside of course.
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When you have very little time, you tend to choose places where you can do multiple things. Today I went to the Olympic Park, the park around the main site of the 1988 Summer Olympics. I took a different route and arrived at the SOMA (map) first, the Seoul Olympic Museum of Arts.
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A class trip to a robot exhibition at a museum in Ueno, Tokyo. Meet Asimo & his pals!
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