Museum to open in Geomdan New Town Park; neolithic through Joseon Dynasty residence sites and relics excavated

The Geomdan New Town Museum (tentative), which is planned to be built within Geomdan New Town passed the feasibility study for public museums by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism.

Incheon passed the three rounds of the feasibility study by the Ministry, composed of the documentary review in August, site visit on September 3rd, in-person presentation in front of the review board, and Q&A on October 29th.

It is planned to open by 2025. Located in the Neighborhood Part Site No. 14 within Geomdan New Town, the museum will be constructed with a gross floor area of 10,363m²(with one basement and three floors) along with some 1500m² of outdoor exhibition spaces. The museum will be built twice as large as the current Municipal Museum or five times the existing Geomdan Prehistoric Museum.The construction project will be carried out by LH and iH, as a joint project between the two. Once completed, the facility will be handed over to Incheon,which will operate the museum directly.

▲It is planned to open by 2025. Located in the Neighborhood Part Site No. 14within Geomdan New Town, the museum will be constructed with a gross floor area of 10,363m2 (with one basement and three floors) along with some 1500m2 of outdoor exhibition spaces. The museum will be built twice as large as the current Municipal Museum or five times the existing Geomdan Prehistoric Museum.The image is the bird's eye view of the museum.

The excavation survey of cultural heritage for the development of Geomdan New Town showed that the site is home to a large pre-historic residential area during the bronze age as well as the residential sites dates back from the Neolithic era to the Joseon Dynasty, along with tombs and kilns, of which the historic values are immense.

The city has been proceeding with the construction of a new museum, in preparation for the increase of new residences and the demands for culture due to the development of Geomdan New Town Museum, in addition, to serve the needs for abase for more stability in the preservation, study, and exhibition of the cultural heritage excavated from the site.

Geomdan area is home to the existing Geomdan Prehistory Museum (open in 2008, gross floor area 1970m²). However, since the existing museum was too small, there have been calls for expansion. Once the new Geomdan New Town Museum is completed, the existing prehistoric museum is planned to be relocated and merged with the new Geomdan New Town Museum.

Now that the project passed the preliminary public museum feasibility assessment, which will give the project more momentum, the project will start with an international call for a design proposal in the first half of 2022, followed by the groundbreaking in 2023 and completion of construction and opening by 2025.