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The Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art is a museum in Hannam-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea, run by the Samsung Foundation of Culture.[1] It consists of two parts that house traditional Korean art and contemporary art. Museum 1 is designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta and Museum 2 is by French architect Jean Nouvel with Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas designed the Samsung Child Education & Culture Center.[2]

Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art
삼성미술관 리움
General information
Type	Art Museum
Address	747-18 Hannam 2-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea 140-890
Town or city	Seoul
Country	South Korea
Completed	2004
Client	Samsung Cultural Foundation
Design and construction
Architect	Mario Botta, Jean Nouvel, Rem Koolhaas
Architecture firm	Mario Botta Architetto, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Samoo Architects & Engineers
Structural engineer	Chunglym Engineers
Other designers	Landscape: Petra Blaisse
Awards and prizes	2005 Excellence in Design for Civic Architecture Seoul Metropolitan Government
Website
Official Website
References
http://oma.eu/projects/2004/leeum-museum

Collection

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Museum 1, designed by Mario Botta, houses a collection of traditional Korean art, of which 36 pieces are designated national treasures. Included in the collection are landscapes and folk paintings, traditional ceramics and porcelain, such as Celadon and Buncheong, a bluish-green traditional Korean stoneware. As well as 14th century daggers, crowns, earrings and ornaments; and Buddhist art, sculptures, paintings and manuscripts.[3]

Two large volumes, a reverse cone and a simple hexahedral shape, form Museum 1. Mario Botta utilized terra cotta bricks on the building's façade.[4]

The interior of Museum 1 includes a lobby, rotunda, and exhibition spaces. The core of the Leeum Museum is this basement lobby created by the reverse cone penetrating the ground. Museum 2 and the Samsung Child Education & Culture Center are all connected here. Museum goers begin and end their tours in this area. Above the lobby is the white walled rotunda. The exhibition spaces in Museum 1 are hexahedral. Visitors begin at the top and walk down visiting each of the four floors which house ceramics, swords, jewelry and other traditional Korean artifacts.[4]

Museum 2, designed by Jean Nouvel, features modern and contemporary art from both Korean and foreign artists.[5] Many famous artists such as Damien Hirst, Warhol, Rothko, Yves Klein and Donald Judd have permanent exhibition spaces.[6] The basement levels of the museum face the sunken garden and gabion walls. The gabion cages are composed of iron and filled with rocks unearthed during the construction process. The sunken garden includes birch trees and ferns.[7][8][9]

The main exhibition hall in Museum 2 is a completely open space without any supporting posts thanks to post-tension building techniques.[7]

Rem Koolhaas was charged with designing the Samsung Child Education & Culture Center as well as the museum's master plan. The main entrance into the lobby of Museum 1 is through Koolhaas's glass structure. Upon entering the museum, visitors follow along on a wooden ramp and pass under a pavilion, demarcating the threshold. Koolhaus used pilotis which not only light the structure but also provide a view of the surrounding buildings and site. The skin of the three-story outer building is composed of steel and glass. Inside, a mixing chamber was created between the glass wall and Black box and the placement of lighting, piloti and ramps.[10] The Black concrete box holds different exhibits.[11]

Located over the parking garage, the Sculpture Garden showcases sculptural exhibits. The garden consists of a long rectangular strip of gravel and vegetation and the wood deck which frames it. Recently two of Louise Bourgeois’s Maman sculptures were featured in the Sculpture Garden.[12]^{[better source needed]}[13]^{[failed verification]}

Publications

• Korea Herald, 9 December 2010

A+U #422, 11/05 Archiworld, Culture, Project Type 9, Seoul, 2005 Arcspace

• Dolcevita*, 06

Interni #552, 06/05 Sixty Six World New Architecture 2, 2006

See also

• List of museums in South Korea

References

External links

• Official Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art website

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Le Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art est un musée consacré à l'art et à la culture coréenne qui est situé au pied du Namsan, en bordure du fleuve Han, dans la ville de Séoul, en Corée du Sud. Construit en 2004 par la fondation Samsung, cette œuvre architecturale a pour but de rallier les différents portails de l'art et la culture coréenne comme le musée National de Séoul et le théâtre National, mais également d'étendre la présence de la culture en Corée.

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