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Government-General Museum of Chōsen

Government-General Museum of Chōsen
朝鮮総督府博物館
General information
Town or city	Keijō
Country	Korea, Empire of Japan
Coordinates	37°34′43″N 126°58′42″E / 37.5785°N 126.9782°E / 37.5785; 126.9782
Opened	1 December 1915[1]

The Government-General Museum of Chōsen (Japanese: 朝鮮総督府博物館, Korean: 조선총독부박물관) was a museum in Seoul during the period of Japanese rule. Built in the grounds of Gyeongbokgung Palace for the 1915 Chōsen Industrial Exhibition,^[2]: 96 the museum opened on 1 December 1915.^[1] The museum did not operate as an independent agency, and the department under which it fell was subject to bureaucratic reorganization.^[3] The museum was disestablished in 1945 and its collections transferred to the National Museum of Korea,^[2]: 106 which opened on 3 December 1945.^[1] In 1998, the museum building was demolished, after it had come to be viewed as a "symbol of colonialism".^[4]

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Publications[edit]

• Bulletin of the Government-General Museum of Chōsen (朝鮮總督府博物館報), 1926–^{[2]: 105 [6]}
• Museum Exhibits Illustrated (博物館陳列品圖鑑), 1918–1943 (17 volumes)^{[2]: 105 [7]}

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  Postcard of the 1915 Chōsen Industrial Exhibition
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  The museum building in 1915

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• Karafuto Agency Museum

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Sources[edit]

• Shin, Michael (2018). Korean National Identity under Japanese Colonial Rule: Yi Gwangsu and the March First Movement of 1919 (1st ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9780367438654.