Chojeon Textile and Quilt Museum초전섬유·퀼트박물관

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Opened on October 27, 1998, Chojeon Textile and Quilt Museum is the only textile art museum in Korea, with a wide collection of textile artworks from Korea and abroad. Its founder, Kim Sun-hee, director of the Jeil Cultural Center, opened the museum at the foot of Namsan Mountain in the heart of Seoul with two lifelong goals: to pass down the fading Korean tradition of jogakbo (patchwork wrapping cloth) and to bring Korean textile art to the world. The museum opened with its first special exhibition, a successful showing of award-winning works from an international quilt contest in Japan. It went on to hold a series of exhibitions spanning quilts and textiles, including the 1st Korea Quilt Contest and an exhibition of its winning entries, a manhole quilt exhibition titled "An Attempt for a Beautiful Environment," a new experiment in the quilting field, and an exhibition of traditional textiles from around the world. The museum also plans to continue hosting workshops and seminars on textile art as a place of learning for artists and professionals. With its unique collection and exhibitions, the museum is emerging as a new destination for international visitors. Beyond the permanent exhibition of its collection, it holds a variety of special exhibitions as well as textile and quilt contests, giving the general public a chance to get closer to textile art, which may be unfamiliar to many. For young people studying textile art, the museum aims to pass on Korea's fine textile traditions and serve as a foundation for reaching the world stage. It also introduces distinctive textile art from countries around the world to Korean textile artists, offering them a chance to gain new techniques and ideas while broadening their perspective and developing an international outlook.