Exhibition Information

			The National Iksan Museum will host the theme exhibition <Mireuk Temple Site 1,300 Years ago> in the winter of 2020. 100 years ago, the Cultural Heritage Survey was started by the Government-General of Korea. The first photograph of the collapsed stone pagoda of Mireuksa Temple, a sand station between rice paddies and concrete, would have been taken to investigate cultural assets. However, the image of the person and the camera was probably a prelude to collecting the Korean Peninsula and planting the identity of the Japanese Empire.

The exhibition consists of Part 1 (Mireuk Temple Site, Revealed to the World), Part 2 (Statue Tower, Heavy Cement), and Part 3 (Mireuk Temple Site, View Close). It introduces the images of Maitreya Temple Site and Stone Pagoda, which were first filmed in 1910, to the post-1930s.

Japanese colonial era Photographs taken provide an opportunity to think about the reality and meaning of the cultural assets of the time. Although they were taken from their perspective, they might not have been able to remember the ruins of the Mireuksa Temple, the collapsed Mireuksa Stone Pagoda, the tilted Dangganji, and the people in it forever. I hope this exhibition will be a valuable time to look back on the old memories of Mireuksa Temple in Iksan in the early 20th century.