Han Sang Soo Embroidery Museum
Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed: Every Monday and January 1
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The permanent exhibition hall with a collection of some of the finest traditional Korean embroidery artworks that you can find nowadays
Located in the center of the Bukchon Hanok Village, the Han Sang Soo Embroidery Museum is one of the safeguards Korea's aesthetic heritage.
The museum was established by Han Sang Soo, a master embroiderer whose passion for this diminishing art form has been handed down in her family over three generations. To preserve this specific aspect of Korean aesthetic culture, Han dedicated her life to the study of traditional Korean embroidery and opened the museum in 2006 to showcase her life's works of 60 years. The museum also feature other relevant historical relics.
The two main exhibition halls of the museum display a diverse range of Korean garments and embroidered art from an exquisite royal court hat to a delicate folding screen.
The museum, which has the warm welcoming atmosphere of a traditional Korean family house, also runs classes on traditional Korean embroidery techniques. You can take home the handkerchief that you embroider yourself.
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