National Children's Museum of Korea

The museum translates a future museum district for children

The National Children’s Museum of Korea opened in Sejong in December 2023 as Korea’s first national children’s museum. It was created to interpret subjects planned across the wider National Museum Complex—urban architecture, design, digital heritage and archives—at a child’s scale

Permanent rooms are split by age and subject, with infant play on the ground floor and larger exhibition, making and reading spaces below

Babies get a forest built to their scale

Agi Supsok, the infant forest, is a floor-level playroom for children under 36 months. It combines sensory, construction and physical play. Floor mats and low play objects let crawling babies reach, touch and move through the room at their own height. The low objects are spread across the mat-covered floor, so non-walking children can move from one activity to another by crawling rather than being carried between stations. Forest sounds and plant-and-animal imagery keep the room tied to its woodland theme

A nursing room sits inside the infant area, while lockers, an infirmary and other family facilities are on the same floor

A picnic room downstairs allows families to eat food brought from outside between the two long reserved sessions

For families with children on opposite sides of the toddler boundary, the age rule changes which physical environment each child uses

Color becomes a language exercise

The permanent Korean Color Names exhibition is aimed at ages five to twelve. Children move through a “color garden” where color is experienced through more than sight: the exhibition asks them to touch, smell, associate and name what they encounter

Familiar colors lead into descriptive Korean color words, adjectives, proverbs and song lyrics, with vocabulary growing from what children have just seen, touched and smelled

Atelier, learning and resource spaces add making and self-directed activity. The permanent infant forest and color-language gallery remain the clearest age-specific parts of the museum

Before you go

Entry runs in two long sessions rather than continuous all-day admission: 09:30–13:00 and 14:00–17:30, with an hour between them. Advance online reservation is required for everyone entering, including infants and adults; any remaining capacity may be issued on site