iNational Folk Museum of KoreaJongno-gu
Twinkle Twinkle, Hippity-Hop
Interactive Children's Museum exhibition following a bunny doll into the museum's collection, with hands-on excavation, cleaning, conservation and packing activities.
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A wish letter arrives for Wishcat, a cartoon cat who ends every sentence with "meow", asking for a home where a precious bunny doll can stay safe for a long time. The answer is the museum, and ten stations show how a toy becomes a collection object.
This is the Children's Museum at the Paju branch, the museum's open-storage site in Heyri, not the Seoul building at Gyeongbokgung. You dig through a ball pool for buried treasure, brush dust off objects, walk a quarantine tunnel, fill in a record card and pack a box for the truck. The museum says it is built for preschoolers to learn by moving. Paju already holds over 1.1 million objects and archive items in 15 storerooms, and here a bunny doll applies to join them.
Entry is free but booked: four 70-minute sessions a day, 60 people each including adults, bookable online from 30 days ahead until the day before. Leftover places sell at the door. Closed Mondays.
Look for
The excavation ball pool
Look for the ball pool and fishing game, where kids hunt for treasures hidden as if underground, under the sea or inside a tower.
The quarantine tunnel
Walk through a tunnel that shows how changing the air or temperature clears tiny bugs out of an object before it goes into storage.
The microscope check-up
The bunny says its ears hurt, so you look through a microscope, listen, sniff and touch to work out what is wrong.
The packing station
Find a box that fits, wrap the object so it can't shift, and load it onto the truck for a loan to another museum.
The make-your-own exhibition
At the last station, kids draw their own favourite toy, write its story and make a one-toy exhibition, with Wishcat helping if it gets hard.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Small Kids
About 70 min
Skip if
You aren't bringing a young child: every station is built for preschoolers.
With kids
Built for preschool-age children, who learn by moving: a ball pool, a tunnel, packing and drawing. Free, but book a 70-minute session online in advance; each takes 60 people, adults included.
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- Twinkle Twinkle, Hippity-HopCourtesy of National Folk Museum of Korea
- MMCA×LG OLED Series 2026: Christine Sun KimCourtesy of MMCA Seoul
- Korea Artist Prize 2026Courtesy of MMCA Seoul
- Do Ho SuhCourtesy of the artist; Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London; Victoria Miro © Do Ho Suh
- National Folk Museum of KoreaGaël Chardon, CC BY-SA 2.0
- MMCA Seouljens kuu, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- Art Sonje CenterBonnielou2013 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Palace Museum of KoreaJinho Jung, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Seoul Museum of Craft ArtYoungjin, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0