Korean Revolution Museum

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Korean Revolution Museum

The Korean Revolution Museum is a museum on Mansu Hill in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang . It is located just behind the Mansudae major monument .

history

Showroom in 1960

The museum was initially built in 1948 by a resolution of the Labor Party of Korea as the “State Central Museum of the Liberation Struggle” and opened in August 1955 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the liberation of Korea. In 1960 it was renamed and in January 1961 it moved to its current location on Mansu Hill. In 1972, on the occasion of the 60th birthday of the then President Kim Il-sungs, it was expanded and completely redesigned.

Facility

The different periods of the revolutionary struggle from a North Korean perspective are presented in over 100 exhibition rooms on approx. 60,350 m². The museum is divided into the following 7 departments:

I. Complete overview

II. Period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle

III. Time of the reconstruction of the fatherland

IV. Period of the Patriotic War of Liberation

V. Time of building the basis of socialism

VI. Time of the comprehensive building of socialism

VII. Time of building a strong socialist state

There are also 3 special departments: the department for the great leaders with their comrades-in-arms , the department for the unification of the fatherland and the department for the Koreans abroad .

There is also a conference hall, a presentation room and several semi-panoramic rooms of different sizes.

On the facade of the museum is a 70-meter-long and 12.85-meter-high wall mosaic depicting the Paektusan - the symbol of Kim Il-sung's struggle for the independence of Korea from the Japanese Empire and for the glorified rule of the Kim family .

Web links

Commons : Korean Revolution  Museum - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pjongjang introduces itself , Pjongjang: Verlag für foreign language literature, 1988, p. 58.
  2. ^ Korean Revolutionary Museum , Pyongyang: Foreign Languages ​​Publishing House, 1962, p. 1.
  3. ↑ Korea Today, 11/1982, p. 16.
  4. ^ Korean Revolutionary Museum , Pyongyang: Foreign Languages ​​Publishing House, 1962, p. 1.
  5. ↑ North Korean Revolution Museum in Pyongyang (video in Korean with English video description)
  6. ^ The Korean Revolution Museum - North Korea Information. Retrieved May 26, 2020 .
  7. ^ Philipp Meuser (Ed.): Architectural Guide Pyongyang. Volume 1: Photos and Descriptions. DOM publishers, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86922-126-7 , p. 38.
  8. ^ Large monument on Mansu Hill ( Memento from August 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) North Korea illustrated book, contemporary stories on Spiegel-Online

Coordinates: 39 ° 1 ′ 55.6 ″  N , 125 ° 45 ′ 11 ″  E