National Maritime Museum — Attraction in Busan

This was a surprise find... we had some time to spare while waiting for our friend and decided to pop into this museum for a quick one since it was free, and we were very very plasantly surprised by how good this museum was because most maritime museums were boring af... There were 3 levels of exhibition on all things maritime, and a special exhibition on fishing when we were there, and as boring as it sounds.. it was actually very well curated and the use of multimedia throughout the exhibition made these topics really interesting. The only downside was that there wasn't a lot of writeups in english, which was a downer but it didn't kill the...

Today's review is the National Marintime Museum of Korea located in Youngdo, Busan.

This Museum is a comprehensice maritime museum located in Youngdo, Busan that collects and displays artifacts found in the ocean and presents a vision for a comprehensive maritime future.

Admission is free and parking is 2,000won for the first three hours.

You can meet various types of fish at the aquarium, and there are feeding times a day. In the second, an aquarist perfromed an underwater feeding show, which the kids really enjoyed.

I strongly recommend it as one of the places to visit in...

A good maritime museum that's worth a visit. Allow 2-4 hours to visit most of the indoor displays. There are some outdoors displays but these were not available when I visited. The aquarium is very good, and while not huge, it has lots of different types of fish. The displays have some English descriptions, but most descriptions are in Korean. There is a surround cinema that's also worth a visit, though it may not be suitable for young children. The top level has a cafe. Entry is free, and well worth a visit. You can get to it by bus or...