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Overview
Korean Museum of Straw and Life is a private museum dedicated to the collection, research, and display of materials and historical accounts of diverse straws and their uses in Korea. As Koreans' lifestyle in the past heavily depended on agriculture and cultivation of crops, straws and grasses were easily found and had many uses. The museum aims to educate the general public of how straw were produced and used by Korean ancestors as well their significance in connection with today's lifestyle.
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Opening hours, closed days and other practical details.
- Contact
- • 1330 Travel Hotline: +82-2-1330
(Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese)
• For more info: +82-2-743-8787 - Closed
- Mondays, January 1, Day of Seollal (Lunar New Year's Day) & Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving Day)
- Admission
- Individuals - Adults 5,000 won / Kindergarten-High school students 4,000 won
Groups - Adults 4,000 won / Kindergarten-High school students 3,000 won
* Groups: 20 or more people - Hours
- 10:00-17:30
* Last admission is 16:30 - Size
- Exhibition hall - 429㎡
- Time needed
- Approx. 1 hr
Updated 2019.11.29
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Access
How to get here by subway or bus, with a map.
Routes and travel time from your current location open in Google Maps. Naver Map is shown in Korean.
Hyehwa Station (Seoul Subway Line 4), Exit 4.
Walk straight for approx. 150 meters towards the rotary.
Cross the street and turn left.
Walk straight and take the second right turn.
45, Sungkyunkwan-ro 4-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul
Traffic information
- Subway Line 4 Hyehwa (혜화) - 696.1m
- Subway Line 4 Hansung Univ. (Samseongyo) (한성대입구(삼선교)) - 752.6m
- Subway Line 3 Anguk (안국) - 1651m
- Subway Line 4 성신여대입구 - 1734.2m
- Subway Line 6 Changsin (창신) - 1781.9m
- Subway Line 5 Jongno 3(sam)ga (종로3가) - 1862.3m
- Subway Line 3 Jongno 3(sam)ga (종로3가) - 1862.3m
- Subway Line 1 Jongno 3(sam)ga (종로3가) - 1862.3m
- Subway Line 1 Jongno 5(o)ga (종로5가) - 1898.2m
- Subway Line 6 Bomun (보문) - 1925.8m
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