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The National Museum of Korea
The National Museum of Korea is the flagship museum of Korean history and art in South Korea and is the cultural organization that represents Korea. In October of 2005, the museum opened in a new building in Yongsan Family Park in Seoul, South Korea. It is the largest museum in Asia and the sixth-largest museum in the world in terms of floor space, covering 307,227 square feet.Measures to protect the treasures inside the museum included designing a building built to withstand a magnitude 6.0 Richter Scale earthquake. The display cases for artifacts are equipped with seismic-protective platforms which absorb shocks and trembles. There is also an imported natural lighting system which utilizes sunlight instead of artificial lights and an air purification system designed to protect the art and artifacts of the museum. The museum is also made from fire resistant materials.
To design the new building, the Korean government held an international competition open to architects around the world to submit a proposal for the new building. The building is oblong, like a Korean fortress, at 404 meters in length. Emperor Sunjong established Korea's first museum, the Imperial Household Museum, in 1908 CE in the waning days of the Joseon Dynasty. The collection of the Imperial Household Museum at Changgyeonggung and the later Japanese Government General Museum, during the Japansese rule of Korea, became the nucleus of the National Museum's collection which was established when South Korea gained independence in 1945 CE. During the Korean War, the 20,000 of the museum's pieces were safely moved to Busan to avoid destruction. The museum was moved again in 1986 to the Jungangcheong, the former Japanese General Government Building, which housed the museum until it was demolished 1995.
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