After moving to Yongsan in Oct. 2005, the National Museum of Korea has
held various special exhibitions. Curators who prepare for special exhibitions
must be sensitive about visitors' desire because social and cultural issues
and people's concerns can be realized in special exhibitions.
The aim of this study is to analyse the special exhibition organized by the
National Museum of Korea after moving to Yongsan in the museum marketing
perspective. In the point of exhibition contents, the special exhibitions can be
categorized into world civilization exhibitions, foreign cultural heritage
exhibitions and Korean cultural heritage exhibitions borrowed from the
foreign countries. In these kind of exhibitions, people's concern and social
issues are well reflected. These exhibition can be evaluated as meaningful
successful museum marketing cases because the National Museum of Korea
tried to be a world class museum in the global and multi-cultural era.
Especially, the special exhibitions of Korean cultural heritage in foreign
countries appealed to visitors. The reason was that people had great concern
about looting of Korean cultural heritage. For a while, it was issue in the
society.
There are tasks to solve for curators working for the National Museum of
Korea. First of all, the special exhibition must be prepared based on the
accumulated academic studies. It can make possible more profound, new and
striking approach to exhibition subject. And it is also needed to prepare for
educational and academic programs connected with the special exhibitions.
For the better special exhibition, multilateral evaluation system is also
needed for continuous successful exhibitions.