Gyeongju

Like last week I will go for a Gyeongju.

I and Ben went to Gyeongju national museum. Ben wanted to know more about Gyeongju’s history.


Gyeongju National Museum is the essence of the Silla culture in general with 2,500 artifacts including the prehistoric relics and the Buddhist artifacts on display and 80,000 in storage.

In 1910 a group of Gyeongju residents formed the Silla Gyeongju Society in an effort to preserve historic sites and relics in and around Gyeongju.

It was expanded and renamed the Gyeongju Historical Association in 1913 at which time it made an old Joseon period government guest house into an exhibition hall for displaying relics.

In the Main Hall you can see earthenware, and in the Arts and Crafts room you can see various artwork and craftwork.

Gukeun Memorial Hall exhibits 666 artifacts, which are the personal collection of Dr. Lee Yang-Seon, donated to the museum for preservation purposes.

Artifacts from the great tombs of the city of Gyeongju are exhibited in Annex I, the Gobun Gallery.

There are many glittering accessories, such as golden crowns, crown ornaments, belts, earrings etc.

The other galleries exhibit household goods.

These various types of items show life in the Royal Court during the Silla Period.

There is also a variety of artifacts from royal palaces and temples exhibited here.

The exhibits we saw consisted mainly of different kinds of Korean art (mainly ancient local art),
pottery, weaponry, civilization, models, etc.

After the galleries, we moved on to the Outdoor Exhibit Area, which is the Museum Grounds and Chunma chong.

We took a picture on the way to Chunmachong.

Chunmachong room exhibits artifacts related to the production of earthenware, ironware and bronze ware.

In addition to weaponry and horse fittings and clay figurines excavated from the stone-piled double coffin tombs.

This room also exhibit clay human figures, figures of the twelve horary signs and jar coffins and bone reliquires of cremation burials excavated from the late Shilla dolbang mudeom or stonechamber tombs.

Another room exhibit some of the most highly prized treasures from the late Dr.Guguen, Lee Yang-Seon’s collection 666 cultural objects dating from the prehistoric to Goryeo period.

The tombs are very roundly so we took a more pictures.

Then we moved on Chumsungdae.

Chumsungdae is ancient observatory.

ChumSungDae is an observatory in Silla. It is made of a stone and its height is 9.17 meters.

Many people visit here to see this traditional observatory.

It is the oldest observatory in the world and it used to see stars in the sky.

Since the time is getting over 4pm, we started to hungry a little.

So we head for Whangnam bread bakery.

Whangnam bread is The family owned Hwangnam Bakery claims to produce the original ones dating back to 1939 made by Choi Yeong-hwa.

Hwangnam bread is handmade and this process can be observed right behind the cashier counter.

A dozen people are standing at several tables with a huge chunk of red bean paste in front of them filling the pastry.

It was quite impressing and well worth a visit.

You will definitely taste that they are handmade.

Ben and I were eat at there and bought it one box more.

This Gyeongju trip is more exciting cause I was with my buddy Ben.

Gyeongju is one of the best palce to trip in autumn season and I would like to visit here when my family come next summer.

I am sure they will love it!