Icheon Experiential Tour: Enjoying Sightseeing and Hands-On Activities Together

Icheon, where pottery production has thrived since the Bronze Age, retains traces of the Three Kingdoms Period's pottery culture and is rich in kaolin clay—the raw material for ceramics—and wood-burning kilns. In this home of ceramics, Icheon, this tour offers a course where visitors can view ceramic and art works while enjoying a variety of hands-on activities. For parents with children, wouldn't this serve as another wonderful venue for education?

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   Icheon Cerapia

   이천 세라피아

   The Icheon World Ceramic Center is located in Seolbong Park, which boasts an outstanding natural environment, and features four large exhibition halls along with various ancillary facilities to promote ceramic arts. Through invitational exhibitions, competitions, and rental exhibitions, it introduces works by influential artists leading global ceramic trends, and actively promotes discovery programs for emerging artists who can present the future direction of ceramic arts. Recently, to revitalize the ceramic industry, the Ceramic Research and Support Center was newly opened, equipped with associated facilities such as an e-commerce support room, marketing room, a high-tech international seminar room, and 'Doja Mangwondang,' a specialized ceramic library. In addition, through auxiliary facilities such as 'Toya Clay Play Park' (a hands-on pottery playground for children), a traditional wood-fired kiln, and a tea ceremony testing venue, it is developing into a place of rest and learning for the entire family to experience and learn about clay and ceramics that are familiar to our daily lives.MoreLess

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   Icheon City Woljeon Museum of Art

   이천시립월전미술관

   Icheon City Woljeon Museum of Art is a memorial-type museum honoring Master Woljeon Chang Woo-sung, a prominent figure in Korean painting. During his lifetime, Master Woljeon decided to return his private fortune to society for the Korean painting community, establishing the Woljeon Art and Cultural Foundation in 1989 and donating all of his representative works and antique art pieces collected domestically and internationally throughout his life to the foundation. Based on this, the private Woljeon Museum of Art was established in Palpan-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul in 1991. To expand its scale and capabilities and make its public nature clearer, Master Woljeon left a will to convert the Woljeon Museum of Art into the Icheon City Woljeon Museum of Art before passing away in 2005. In accordance with his wishes, in August 2007, 1,532 items, including Master Woljeon's works and the collection of the Woljeon Museum of Art, were donated by the Woljeon Art and Cultural Foundation and his bereaved family, newly opening as the Icheon City Woljeon Museum of Art.MoreLess

   

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   Pig Museum (Pig Theme Park)

   돼지박물관(돼지보러오면돼지)

   Located in Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, the Pig Museum is Asia's first pig-themed museum. It was established on November 14, 2011, by Village Chief Lee Jong-young, an artificial insemination specialist for pigs. The museum displays around 5,000 pig figurines and artworks collected from 18 countries around the world, including red plastic piggy banks. In addition, visitors can watch tricks performed by miniature pigs and participate in hands-on sausage-making activities.MoreLess

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