Saturday, January 23, 2010

46. Go to at least 10 different museums

In Korea, I went to 6 different museums.

-National Museum of Korea
This museum was really cool, and it has the largest museum in Korea. I was there for almost 4 hours, and I didn't see everything. There was alot of stuff about the period of the 3 Kingdoms which was before there was a unified Kingdom in Korea, and this was the most interesting of the museums that I saw, but only by a small margin, because many of the other museums I visited were very cool too.

-Korean War Museum
This museum starts off with the exhibit outside, which has many tanks and airplanes and cannons and other things outside! This place is cool, and of everyone I talked to, this is the one place where everyone told me I must go. It starts off with the 3 Kingdom period and shows how the weapons evolved and it just has so much stuff in it!

-Korean Hall of Independence
They had an exhibit on torture... It was beyond awesome! Huge place, out in the boonies, but worth it.

-Museum of Art
hey had an Andy Worhol exhibit, and I secretly took a few pictures. There was also an exhibit on modern sculpture that was a little.. hinky (in the words of David Letterman)

-Museum of Korean Pilgrims
This was just as boring as the title suggests. I didn't even know Korea had pilgrims. I hightailed it out of there as quick as I could. In fact, I only went into this museum by mistake, because when I asked someone where the Museum of Art was, they pointed in the direction of this building.

-Kimchi Field Museum
Kimchi is the national food in Korea, and Koreans eat it with every meal. Including breakfast, where you can just mix it in your rice. Very tasty! This museum showed the different types of kimchi, how to make it, the beneficial properties of kimchi, and the best part - a taste test. To be honest though, only one of them was really good, another was decent, but the rest of them were nasty.

I leave you with a picture taken at the Kimchi museum.

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