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Whanki MuseumBuam-dong, Jongno-gu

Whanki Foundation Collection Exhibition — Collector Kim HyangAn: And Beyond

Now showing24 July 2026 – 31 December 2026₩15,000

At Suhyangsanbang: the Korean art collection Kim HyangAn built after founding the Whanki Foundation in 1974, and what came after her.

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Kim HyangAn once wrote that the museum she built might, years after her death, "become something I never intended at all," and that there was nothing to be done about it. This show is the "and beyond": what the Whanki Foundation collected after the early years she shaped.

It follows the spring show on her own early collection and moves on to the Korean art the foundation gathered since, much of it through the Whanki Foundation Artists exhibitions and the Prix Whanki, begun in 1982. You find it in Suhyangsanbang, separate from the main building, where Highlights II hangs Whanki's New York years.

The museum names no individual works for this show online, so it suits visitors curious about how a private museum built a collection more than anyone hunting one painting. One ticket covers every gallery and is sold on site only: 13,000 won for adults, 6,500 for seniors and under-19s. There are no regular docent tours this season, and last entry is 17:00.

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