Trip to Pangyo Time Machine from Three Kingdoms Dolbang Grave to Digital Aquarium
Small Pangyo Museum exterior with 1st floor
Trip to Pangyo Time Machine from Three Kingdoms Dolbang Grave to Digital Aquarium
Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Just a few years ago, Pangyo was just a restricted area of outskirts of Seongnam or Gyeongbu Expressway. The development of a new city led to the construction of a large-scale apartment complex and many IT companies nesting in Pangyo Techno Valley have now become the most modern city. Examination of the excavations reveals that Paleyo had already lived during the Paleolithic period. In the Hanseong Baekje era, belonging to Baekje, Jangsu King descended to Koguryeo in the late 5th century and Silla since the mid 6th century. It has been part of Gwangju since the Goryeo Dynasty, and only 40 years ago. Starting from the Three Kingdoms Ancient Burial Mound, a digital aquarium that looks like a scene of the future and a shopping mall Avenue Franc are leaving for a day trip to Pangyo where you can travel in various time zones as if you were riding a time machine.
Pangyo Museum with Baekje and Goguryeo Stone Chamber
Pangyo Museum is a place where exhibits of relics and ruins discovered during the construction of Pangyo New Town show the long history of Pangyo. In the process of cultural property research conducted prior to the development of the housing site, nine ancient tombs of Hanseong Baekje era, two ancient Goguryeo tombs in Sampyeong-dong, the Goryeo period and Cheongja, and the white porcelain period were discovered. A museum was built in the area where Baekje burial mounds were mainly excavated and opened in the winter of 2013.
It's a single-story building from the outside, but when you enter, it's one floor above the ground, but you'll be surprised because it's several times deeper. As a museum that mainly displays burial mounds, the entire building is concentrated under the ground.
Underground burial mound exhibition room of Pangyo Museum from the first floor
The first floor shows excavated artifacts by period. There are many kinds of earthenware and pottery such as flat pattern earthenware, comb earthenware, celadon and white porcelain, and there are also ornaments such as bronze mirrors, rings and silver bracelets.
Various earthenware and pottery are on display
Before going down to the basement, look down the entire basement room from the railing. Everything that looks like a small room is tombs, and there is a pedestrian passageway between them that makes you feel as if you are walking back into the Three Kingdoms period for more than 1500 years.
Excavation artifacts ranging from flat pattern earthenware to white porcelain
Of the nine Baekje burial mounds, two were asleep in the ground without excavating outside the museum. Goguryeo burial mounds were so large that they were numbered and rebuilt.
Back into the tomb of Baekje for over 1,500 years
Baekje and Goguryeo burial mounds are both stone stones tombs. Most of them are believed to have been made in the late 4th century to the late 5th century. Baekje burial mounds were piled up firmly in small stones, and Koguryo burial mounds mainly used large stones.
An narrator explaining to the children the tomb
Ornaments, earthenware, clay pots and plates were unearthed in Baekje tombs, while no artifacts were found in Koguryo tombs. There are various types of burial mounds that may have been buried, two twin rooms with two stone chambers, and mounds with many traces of lime on the floor and walls.
Bronze Bodhisattva statue excavated during the Koryo Dynasty
There are separate experience spaces between burial mounds. Activities include matching a ceramic puzzle, stamping a relic with a major relic, taking a peek into the camera to see the inside of the tomb, discovering relics with a touch screen, and taking quizzes. If you are accompanied by an elementary school student, take advantage of the activity sheet given at the entrance.
Space for various hands-on activities
Pangyo Museum does not have many exhibits compared to the large museum, but you can see the stonebang tomb of the Three Kingdoms era right in front of you. In addition, the difference between Baekje and Goguryeo tombs can be identified immediately.
Visitors experiencing the excavation experience with the touch screen
Aquarium without a fish
Icuarium is a state-of-the-art digital aquarium with no living fish. Visitors can use a smart kit, Aqua Kit, to observe marine life, view descriptions of fish, and play games given at each location.
IQArium Ticket Office and Entrance
The sea embodied delicately on the big screen is nothing but water, just like the vivid sea. In addition, the smart aquarium that responds every time you touch, the power of digital is amazing.
Inside the aquarium decorated like a marine probe
When you enter the IQ Aquarium, you will receive an Aqua Kit, an exploration device, and enter your name or nickname. The interior is decorated by traveling by sea on a marine probe and meeting various marine life. The exploration is complete by navigating the tunnel of evolution, the rich sea, the vast sea, the calm sea, the unknown sea and watching 4D video at the end of the tour.
Aqua kit for viewing
Each place is given a mission as if playing a game. For example, when extinct ancient marine fossils now appear on the Aqua Kit, you can click on the Aqua Kit hard to flesh it out to restore its original form, or touch the Aqua Kit to break the ice to save the marine life trapped in the ice. to be. It is more interesting because it is played by children's favorite game method, and not only children but also adults are immersed. You can't touch the fish directly, but if you touch and play with the Aqua Kit and touch screen, you can spend an hour.
Game of catching fish in digital fishbowl
If you have learned the past at the Pangyo Museum and have traveled the future at IQArium, it is your turn to enjoy the taste and style of the present at Avenue Franc.
Shopping mall Avenue France
Avenue Franco, a European street shopping mall, is the most trendy space in Pangyo these days. There are restaurants, cafés, shops, and beauty salons just over 200 meters away. It's fun to see the beautifully decorated streets and shops.
Trendy shops and restaurants along pretty alleys
The taste, kindness and atmosphere are good, but the price of food and goods is generally high, so it is hard to open your wallet.
The finish is a sweet dessert
Travel info
Pangyo Museum
Address: 191 Pangyo-ro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do
Contact: 031-729-4535
King Hotel: 157 Daewangpangyo-ro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si / 031-711-6900
Hotel gallery: 321, Hwangsaeul-ro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si / 031-702-8200
Bundang SR Hotel: 9, Hwangsaeul-ro 319beon-gil, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si / 031-702-6565
※ The above information was made in February 2015. It may change afterwards, so please check before you travel.
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