The leading industrial countries have established the Museums of Industry and
Technology in the necessity of shedding new light on the industrial technology
development and of enhancing the national importance of the industrial technology
sector. The Industrial Technology Museums administered by the key technologically
developed nations abroad have been established in each country in the nick of time
when they moved into the industrial power, which nations had majors ambitions that
The Industry and Technology Museum would have carried out the mission to inform
actively the nation’s achieved developments of their industrial competing countries as
well as to inspire national pride at home and abroad through the museums. Indeed, the
Industry and Technology Museum erected in the period of Industrial Revolution was
founded on the basis of the government's strong will and social consensus for the heart
policies to promote the technological developments and the way of proudly expressing
the nation’s confidence of industrial technologies jumping up to be a leading stages
in the industry powerhouse through the technology accumulations and expansions of
industrial capacity as well. Consequentially, the chief role given to the Museum is to
collect and preserve key artifacts and resources of the industrial technologies fading
into the times, furthermore, to establish the exhibition space explaining systematically
the history of industrial technology developments in organized. On the same time the
Industry and Technology Museum was to construct infrastructures and build a place
of education for the future of the industry professional training.
However, these roles and functions of the Industry and Technology Museum have been gradually moving away from the past-oriented nature preserving industrial remains
with the historical values and transformed into the new ground of the space that
provides inspirations and the foundations for innovation to the future generations. In
order to fulfill the future-oriented visions, The Korea’s National Industry and
Technology Museum has to pursue the field of innovation to secure the space of
direction, insight and technological inspiration, moreover, to nurture elite contents for
the era of fusion and convergence as the convergence cultural space through freely
exchanging and communicating with one another in the field of technology, humanities
and art.