Incheon Open Port Modern Architecture Museum
(Former Incheon Branch of Japan's 18th Bank)
- Incheon Tangible Cultural Heritage No. 50 -
77, Sinpo-ro 23 beon-gil, Jung-gu, Incheon
www.cjgss.or.kr
Incheon Open Port Modern Architecture Museum
collects, organizes, studies and exhibits materials related to western modern architectural buildings that have been established in foreign settlements in Incheon since the opening of the port. It enables visitors to enjoy taking a look at existing buildings and models of modern architectural buildings that have been destroyed in addition to other architectural materials.
Introduction of the museum building: Former Incheon Branch of Japan's 18th Bank
Incheon Open Port Modern Architecture Museum was established to be used as the Incheon Branch of Japan's 18th Bank. The exterior of the building was finished through the accumulation of stones featuring cement and sand, while wooden materials were used to support the roof of the building. In addition, the building takes the form of a typical Japanese hip roof. As with the roof, the vault and the vault door of the bank have been kept intact so that visitors can appreciate how it originally looked. (Incheon Tangible Cultural Heritage No. 50)
1F | Exhibition Halls No. 1 through No. 4
Exhibition Hall No. 1
Exhibiting how Incheon Port looked upon opening in 1883
Exhibition Hall No. 2
Videos and photos related to modern architectural buildings constructed from open port era to the present.
Exhibition Hall No. 3
Models of modern buildings, Diorama and kiosk.
Exhibition Hall No.4
A space used as the vault of Japan's 18th Bank. It exhibits materials related to the bank and the bank street.
Incheon Open Port Museum
(Former First Bank of Japan, Incheon Branch)
Incheon Metropolitan City's tangible cultural property No.7
89, Sinpo-ro 23 beon-gil, Jung-gu, Incheon
www.icjgss.or.kr
Incheon Open Port Museum
collects, organizes, studies and exhibits a variety of materials related to the modern products of civilization imported through Incheon Port after its opening.
It enables visitors to appreciate materials that were introduced through Incheon for the first time, or that are related to the modern culture created in Incheon.
Introduction of the museum building: Former First Bank of Japan, Incheon Branch
The building of Incheon Open Port Museum was established to be used as Incheon Branch of the First Bank of Japan. The First Bank of Japan, Incheon Branch took charge of purchasing gold bars and alluvial gold produced in the Joseon Dynasty in addition to collecting marine taxes from merchants visiting Incheon Port. As First Bank of Japan Local Office was elevated to a branch office in 1897, a two-story wooden building was reconstructed into the present stone building. As the windows, vaults and pillars of the then bank still remain, visitors can guess what it looked like at that time.
1F Exhibition Halls No. 1 through No. 4
Annex | Special Exhibition Hall
Exhibition Hall No. 1
The modern products of civilization that have been imported through Incheon Port since 1883 when it first opened.
Exhibition Hall No. 2
Materials related to the Gyeongin Line, Korea's first railway that was opened in 1899.
Exhibition Hall No. 3
A 3D street model of street landscape including relevant materials showing foreign settlement around the Open Port Area during the opening port era.
Exhibition Hall No.4
Materials related to Bank of Japan, Incheon Branch
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