Best Museums & Cultural Venues in Busan

Opened in March 1994 and designated as an electronic-resource specialty library, it holds over 130,000 books and 10,000 non-book items across a children's room, periodicals room, digital archive and a third-floor general collection, with reading-promotion and lifelong-learning programs.

A public library opened in 1984 and modernized in a 2020 renovation, run as a main and annex building with a children's room, general collection, periodicals, a digital zone, a lifelong-learning room and a book cafe serving the local community.

A public library in Busan's Yeonje district with a wide range of collections and modern, comfortable facilities, offering reading along with cultural programs and education classes and spaces for everyone from children to adults.

A field-style museum specializing in Busan's modern and contemporary history, housed in the former Bank of Korea Busan branch, a first-generation Korean building; its upper floors hold permanent exhibitions on the city's modern and contemporary history and identity, with special exhibitions, a Bank of Korea archive, a cafe and a shop.

A contemporary art museum opened to broaden public access to art, with thirteen galleries, an auditorium, a sculpture park and education programs; it also serves as a venue for the Busan Biennale held in even-numbered years.

A hub for Busan's resource-recycling policy that manages waste-resource data and supports recycling-park tenants, while running upcycling education, exhibitions and hands-on programs across an exhibition hall, experience hall and video room downstairs and a learning center and performance hall upstairs.

Opened in July 1996 to improve residents' quality of life and access to knowledge, this three-story library houses a children's room, a nursery room, a general collection and a multimedia room, offering lifelong-education and reading programs such as reading classes, clubs and hands-on storytelling for all ages.

An independent bookshop in Jung-dong, Haeundae specializing in picture books, inspired by the film 'You've Got Mail', with a distinctive multi-level interior where coffee and books can be enjoyed and picture books are framed as accessible to all ages, not just children.

A cozy bookshop stocking novels, essays and classics chosen for personal taste rather than bestseller displays, with a warm, intimate interior and photos and posters on the walls that invite relaxed browsing.

A publisher-run cultural space connecting books and readers, with permanent displays, an open reading area, a writer's room, and halls for talks and gatherings where visitors can browse freely or hold reading groups.

Founded in 1998 to uncover, preserve and pass on Dongnae's local heritage, this center runs cultural events, arts and humanities classes and government-funded projects, and is noted for re-enacting the area's historical events as a way of carrying on Busan's traditions.

Set within Suan Station after a moat and Imjin War-era remains were unearthed there in 2005, this hall displays 546 reproduced relics across 23 types along with a model of Dongnae Fortress, a screening room, a trick-art photo zone and a VR experience zone.