Korea Furniture Museum

The Korea Furniture Museum is a furniture museum located in Seongbuk-dong, Seongbuk District, Seoul, South Korea. The Korea Furniture Museum, founded in 1993 by Chyung Mi-sook, is a private museum located in the Seongbuk neighborhood which is a "hilly area of luxurious homes". The museum itself is a collection of several traditional aristocratic houses (hanok) "in a village setting designed to illustrate the way the Korean nobility lived during the Joseon dynasty". Chyung Mi-sook had made the decision to present her personal collection of about 2,500 furniture pieces to the public as she has been collecting traditional wooden furniture since the 1960s. The exhibition hall is consistently being refreshed as it displays about 550 pieces of wooden furniture at a time out of the entire collection. "As well as discovering the localized characteristics of furniture from different parts of the country, visitors can gain an understanding of the general features of traditional Korean furnishings: their aesthetics emphasizing the intrinsic beauty of the raw materials over artificial decorations, thoughtful design taking into consideration the natural contraction and expansion of wood, the overall distribution of weight, and practical structure which makes full consideration of the human scale". "At the museum, visitors can also experience chagyeong, or "borrowed scenery," one

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