Background
- The Jewelry Museum was established as a tourism resource and a cultural space related with Baekje culture and relics such as Mireuksa Temple Site Stone Pagoda and Five-Story Stone Pagoda in Wanggung-ri, where tourists can visit easily and also as a symbol and educational venue for jewelry on the total land area of 160,460㎡ in Iksan Wanggung Jewelry Theme Park. The construction was started from 1996 and completed and opened in May 2002.
- The museum is composed of a basement floor and two ground floors with the gross floor area of 6,215㎡. The archives and machines room are on the basement floor, special exhibitions and cafeteria sit on the first floor, and the permanent exhibitions of rare jewelry and gemstones are found on the second floor. In addition, around 60 domestic and foreign brands are gathered in the ‘Jewel Palace’ which was opened in 2010, where you can find everything from high-quality jewelry and gemstones to sophisticated accessories.
- In addition, restaurants, jewelry squares, outdoor stages, seven fairy statues and other sculptures and dinosaurs theme parks built around Dino Kids World provide pleasant rest areas to visitors to the Jewelry Museum.