Government-General Museum of Chōsen

The Government-General Museum of Chōsen (朝鮮総督府博物館, 조선총독부박물관) was a museum in Seoul during the period of Japanese rule. Built in the grounds of Gyeongbokgung Palace for the 1915 Chōsen Industrial Exhibition, the museum opened on 1 December 1915. The museum did not operate as an independent agency, and the department under which it fell was subject to bureaucratic reorganization. The museum was disestablished in 1945 and its collections transferred to the National Museum of Korea, which opened on 3 December 1945. In 1998, the museum building was demolished, after it had come to be viewed as a "symbol of colonialism".

Publications

 * Bulletin of the Government-General Museum of Chōsen (朝鮮總督府博物館報), 1926–
 * Museum Exhibits Illustrated (博物館陳列品圖鑑), 1918–1943 (17 volumes)