The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando de Madrid presents from tomorrow Thursday a temporary exhibition co-organised with the Centro Cultural Coreano and the Seok Juseon Memorial Museum of Dankook University dedicated to traditional Korean children’s clothing, entitled: Retazos de amor filial (Pieces of filial love) and curated by the historian Hwang Jinyoung of the Seok Juseon Memorial Museum of Korea. The exhibition will remain open to the public until 25 July.
The exhibition, which explores the purity of filial love over the years in Korea, brings together a collection of 80 original pieces from the museum’s historical collections of Korean children’s costumes from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. These are handmade garments made by parents for their children, and bring to the public the aesthetic and traditional values, history and origin of Korean clothing.
The Seok Juseon Memorial Museum of Dankook University, established in 1999, houses one of the largest collections of Korean garments with excellent examples of Hanbok (traditional Korean costume considered the cultural heritage par excellence of Koreans and the most visible form of confirmation of their identity and roots) and objects related to Korean clothing. The museum was born as a result of the unification of the Central Museum of Archaeology and Art (1967) and the Seok Juseon Memorial Folk Museum (1981), which opened its doors thanks to the donation of 3,365 pieces by Dr. Seok Joseon (1911-1996), and constitutes an integral cultural space, in which it carries out arduous excavation and research work, as well as exhibitions and educational workshops, making the excellence and beauty of Korean culture known to the world.
