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Start
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Snow Festival
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Coal Museum
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Hill of Wind
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Yongyeon Cave
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Chujeon Station
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Hwangji Pond
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V-Train
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Buncheon Station
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Coal Mine History Town
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Paleozoic Museum
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Gumunso
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Finish
Taebaek Paleozoic Museum That Used to be Sea
Do you know some parts of Taebaek-si which is on 700-1600m hills used to be the ocean? There's a museum that proves this fact and they are called Taebaek Paleozoic Museum and Gumunso(求門沼), which designated as natural monument No.417. These areas have numerous traces of marine lives that used to live in warm sea during the Paleozoic era and you could see those things in the museum. Shall we?
It seems like a new building and clean. I'm sure it's the cleanest museum I've currently seen. ^^*
+ Museum Fees : Adult: 2,000 won, Adolescent: 1,500 won, Child: 1,000 won.
+ Opening Hours : 09:00 ~ 18:00 (Ticketing by 17:00)
+ Closed : No holidays
The entrance of exhibition hall looks like a globe. It's a three-story building and it takes about one and a half hours to look around but if you pass all the videos, you might finish it in 30-40 minutes.
You gotta enter the building on the second floor where you can see various living things and stratums from the Paleozoic era. In the hallway outside the room, you could also see caves, valances and fossils of trilobites in Taebaek.
There are static displays but they also prepared the living things that used to live under the water and ocean bed using the floor and 3-D movies. It stimulates curiosity and teaches useful information through videos, I guess.
When I turned the corner, I got stunned. They prepared an ENORMOUS trilobite! This place shows us trilobites found in Taebaek and other living things in the ocean. These are all found near Gumunso in front of the museum. This indicates that the area used to be the sea a long long long time ago!
There are living things, not only the dead things. I also saw living crustaceans like scorpion and when my camera approached the glass, it was upset that it lifted its tail. It's kinda scary yet funny. The scorpion hid in the sand, and it was fun.
On the way to the third floor, it was full of exhibitions as well. This amazingly big one is the whole frame of a large dinosaur called Plateosaurus, which implies that I'd get to meet dinosaurs if I keep heading this way.
On the third floor, I saw various animals and plants that grew in the late Paleozoic era, the Mesozoic and the Cenozoic eras. I wish kids and even adults could realise important thing when they saw this. The dinosaurs weren't seeing that their species would be extinct. Of course there are external factors involved but I hope this place would teach us a lesson that we need to protect the earth yet(?).
At the end of the third floor, there was a Special Exhibition titled 'Pictures of Qin Shi Huangdi and Terracotta Warriors'. A bunch of terracotta warriors were found in October, 1979, after being buried over 2,000 years with Qin Shi Huangdi, and the whole world was shocked by its size and artistry. The stories of warriors guarding Qin Shi Huangdi, who wanted to reincarnate after his death, are told here.
I couldn't believe these warriors and horses were made 2,000 years ago yet they're so sophisticated like this that they keep the original shapes. Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor which existed only through the grapevine was found by a farmer while he was cultivating a field. Under the tomb that is 25km in circumference, glamorous palace and grave goods were buried and there were even arrows that are designed to shoot automatically to thiefs. The story in the movies
They were too delicate and made with superior techniques to believe they were used 2,000 years ago. These relics made of bronze were from the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor and the ornaments and military articles tell us one aspect of the Warring Country period.
These pieces are broken clothes of Qin Shi Huangdi. These clothes made of soil in Qin Dynasty made me realise something. If he didn't unite Chinese countries, what would China look like now? Probably separate small countries would've been developed independently like European countries. It would've significantly affected world's history not to mention Chinese history. Because Qin Shi Huangdi, beating Napoleon, was the 18th influential person in <100 Most Influential People in the World> written by Michael Hart.
+ Address : 2249, Taebaek-ro, Taebaek-si, Gangwon-do(295, Dongjeom-dong)
+ Telephone : 033-581-8181, 3003
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