Gwangju Folk Museum opened in 1987 as the largest museum operated by a
city government in Korea. It was established for the purpose of preserving valuable Korean folk relics
and putting them on exhibit to increase the public's cultural awareness of
them. The museum displays the rich and colorful lifestyles and folk culture of
Korea's southwestern regions including Gwangju and Jeollanam-do. The first floor of the museum displays food, clothing, housing, livelihood, and handicrafts while
the second floor showcases folk games, traditional customs and folk religions. The
museum also utilizes miniature and diorama displays to recreate scenes from
the past. A total eight videotech systems in the museum allow people to enjoy vivid demonstrations of the
region's nine intangible cultural relics.