Natural History Museum Holds a Special Exhibition, Locomotion Migration
- Date2022.09.27
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A free career education program is also held through the metaverse for elementary, middle, high school, and university students
September 22 to July 31, 2023, Monday-Saturday 10:00-16:00, Free of charge
The Natural History Museum (Director: Park Joong-ki) holds a special exhibition titled "Locomotion Migration” from September 22 (Thu) to July 31 (Mon) 2023. This is to celebrate the 54th anniversary of the opening of the Ewha Natural History Museum, hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and supported by the Korea Association of University Museums.
The exhibition displays panels, samples, and videos on the reasons for migration, various ways of migration, and how they are related to the humanities. In particular, ecological videos of the migration and life of king ants, king centipedes, snails, toads, tiger keelbacks, Manchurian trouts, sweetfish, swallows, Brahminy ducks, cranes, horseshoe bats, red squirrels, and reindeer are displayed. In addition, you can see vivid videos of the migration of sea creatures such as venus's girdle, dorid nudibranch, octopus starfish, purple sea urchin, and harbor seal. The video is also released on the YouTube channel of the Ewha Natural History Museum. Ewha students also participated in this special exhibition by helping with illustrations, exhibition design, and building the metaverse.
The museum also hosts the metaverse-based education program with the exhibition called "My Career Found in the Migration of Living Things!”
Online education will be provided for elementary school students on October 15th (Sat) and 16th (Sun), and middle, high school, and university (graduate) students can submit a group appointment between October and December. In the program, you can learn more about the exhibition as well as various careers such as ecologists, engineers, and documentary directors who are studying migration. Applications for participation in this program can be accepted on the website of the Ewha Natural History Museum from September 28 (Wed).
This exhibition is free of charge and opened from 10:00 to 16:00 on Monday to Saturday. It is closed on Sundays and public holidays, and also on Saturdays in January, February, July, and August. There is a possibility of limiting the number of visitors or closing in accordance with the quarantine guidelines, so you must check the notice on the website of the Natural History Museum before visiting.