Natural History Folk Museum
This museum, across the road from Samsonghyol in Cheju City, exhibits folk relics and materials of natural history about animals and plants and geology. As you enter the museum, you will be impressed by the building itself with rock wall and rock roof as if to prove how much rock there is in Cheju Island. When you climb the rock stairs, a stuffed whale shark which was caught off the coast of Songsanpo will attract your gaze. There are many exhibition rooms including natural history, sea, folk, and so on. In the natural history exhibition room, there are displayed various kinds of rocks and a description of their geological distribution over Cheju Island. In the sea exhibition room, they have a model map of the seas around Cheju Island and an exhibition of the distribution of plants and animals in the sea. The both folk exhibition rooms, exhibitions of life style, houses, clothes. boats, fishing tackle, farm implements, living applications, foods of Cheju people are displayed.
Information obtained from Chejudo Tourist Association, Cheju Tour Guide.
Last updated by Chun HyongJun on March 23, 1997.