Although the interests and needs for museum education are increasing in society, it hardly grows to meet these expectations in practice. Museums provide educational programmes and activities connected with their permanent exhibitions and special exhibitions. This article investigates special exhibitions which carries relatively rare educational programmes in order to suggest their developing plans. According to some studies, most museums run cultural classes or provide educational programmes in relation to permanent exhibitions. The museums which have special exhibitions are 80% in total, and they focus on passive methods of educational programmes such as leaflets, catalogues and guide orientations. There must be several reasons in the lack of educational programmes in Korea's museums. Most of all, however, museum education in Korea so far has been perceived as the secondary matter behind exhibitions, conservation, collection and research. Besides, small-sized independent museums have difficulty in employing museum educators with their little budget, and the national and public museums have an administrative problem in their limited numbers of the staff. As special exhibitions invest a lot of time and expenses, their expectations for efficiency cannot but be higher. There are several advantages in educational programmes of special exhibitions. First of all， they may irnprove the cultural standard of a community, generate profits and stimulate new cultural industries. Moreover, special exhibitions may attract more audiences with new topics from effective approaches, renew the contents and methods of museum education through the continuous development of ideas and efforts, and contribute to the financial independence of museurns. Recently, National Museum of Korea, the National Folk Museum of Korea and Seoul Museum of History provided educational programmes with special exhibitions. The first two museums gave a lecture and a craft class as a short-term project prepared not by the education departrnent, but by the exhibition department. The rest provided a programme regularly every weekend commissioned by an extemaJ service. This cost a great expense, but it is worth while to notice that the museum allowed everybody to use the worksheet by loading from the museum homepage. However, the period for the educational programmes in those three museums was too short to work as a professional and systematic conduct, which would be needed in the future. Educational prograrnmes related to special exhibitions are potential in the growth of museums. In order to activate them, this article would suggest a proactive use of worksheets, layered approaches to provide educational opportunities with diverse degree of difficulty, and mobile learning kits for the continuous use of the material from special exhibitions. museurns. Recently, National Museum of Korea, the National Folk Museum of Korea and Seoul Museum of History provided educational programmes with special exhibitions. The first two museums gave a lecture and a cr따"t class as a sh01t-term pr이 ect prepared not by the education departrnent, but by the exhibition department. The rest provided a programme regularly every weekend commissioned by an extemaJ service. This cost a great expense, but it is worth while to notice that the museum allowed everybody to use the worksheet by loading from the museum homepage. However, the period for the educational prograrnmes in those three museums was too short to work as a profession따 and systematic conduct, which would be needed in the future. Educational prograrnmes related to special exhibitions are potenti떠 in the growth of museums. In order to activate them, this article would suggest a proactive use of worksheets, layered approaches to provide educational opportunities with diverse degree of difficulty, and mobile learning kits for the continuous use of the material from special exhibitions.