Sookmyung Women's University Museum

Sookmyung Women’s University is a representing university of Korea, with the honorable history. Sookmyung has an SMU Museum  opened in 1971, Chung Young-yang Embroidery Museum which has introduced the textile art of the East Asia, and the Museum of Moon Shin who is a world-renowned sculptor. SMU Museum is a complex Museum with preservation of diverse relics and artefacts of history, ancient art history, anthropology, and folklore. The Museum plays a leading role, in particular, in collecting and displaying relics related with women’s lives, not to mention continuously making professional researches in this area. The Museum holds every year a standing exhibition as well as a special exhibition of relics preserved in the SMU Museum, and actively makes exchanges with other organizations at home and abroad.