Best Museums & Cultural Venues in Jeju-do

A folk museum opened in 2001 set to the 1890s, with about 100 relocated and restored Jeju traditional houses holding folk artifacts, native plants and livestock, plus themed exhibits and hands-on folk programs.

Korea's only glass-specialist museum, opened in 2008, displaying glass artworks amid Jeju's nature with a glass-blowing studio, processing room and cafe, plus hands-on glass-blowing and candle-making programs.

Information center for the Gosan-ri site, Korea's oldest Neolithic settlement, first uncovered in 1987 and designated a national historic site in 1999, offering guides and hands-on educational programs.

Jeju's international conference facility on the Jungmun coast, opened in 2003 and holding up to 4,300 people, host to summits including ASEAN-Korea meetings, with Hallasan views and a domestic duty-free shop.

Built in Seogwipo's Jungmun resort after Jeju was named an Island of World Peace in 2005, a two-story center with four exhibition halls explaining, in Korean, English and Chinese, why Jeju became a peace island.

A culture and arts complex in Jocheon-eup whose name stands for Light Art Festa, combining art galleries, the Laffly zip-line over Geomun Oreum and green-tea fields, and an aroma foot spa.

Opened in October 2021, a four-story museum recording the history of Jeju literature with permanent and special exhibition halls, writers' creative spaces, seminar rooms and a large auditorium for literary events.

A marine animal museum displaying some 10,000 specimens of around 800 species, including whale shark, sunfish and giant crab, offering education and hands-on programs near Seongsan Ilchulbong.

A forest-set provincial art museum showcasing the history of Jeju art alongside world art trends, including a Jang Ri-seok memorial room of donated works plus permanent, special and outdoor exhibitions.

Opened in 2007 in the Jeoji Culture and Arts Village, a contemporary art museum holding works donated by painter Kim Heung-su, with outdoor sculpture park, performance space and themed exhibition halls.

A free science center in Jeju City's Ora-dong with three floors of hands-on exhibits on physics, math, life and earth science, drones, space and robotics, plus a children's hall and a 3D theater and planetarium.

A museum and ecological park presenting Jeju's stone culture, opened in 2006 with a stone museum, exhibition hall and traditional thatched houses, plus outdoor displays of dolhareubang and other stoneworks.