Dongsam-dong Shell Mound Exhibition Hall

Opened in 2002, this exhibition hall displays artifacts excavated from the Dongsam-dong Shell Mound site, a representative cultural heritage of the Neolithic Age, to domestic and international audiences and serves as a venue for living history education. A shell mound is formed by the accumulation of shells and household waste discarded by humans in prehistoric times, and can be described as a shell heap site. At the Dongsam-dong Shell Mound, foxtail millet and proso millet, the oldest cultivated grains on the Korean Peninsula, were discovered, along with household artifacts made of stone tools, animal bones, and shells, as well as farming implements. In addition, plain coarse pottery without patterns and comb-pattern pottery, a representative Neolithic pottery, have been excavated, greatly helping to study and understand the lifestyle and culture of the time. The first exhibition room of the Dongsam-dong Shell Mound Exhibition Hall displays Neolithic culture, Neolithic sites and their distribution, the Dongsam-dong Shell Mound, and the natural environment and distribution of the Neolithic Age to help visitors gain a general understanding of the Neolithic Age and shell mounds. The second exhibition room displays a year in the life of the people of Dongsam-dong Shell Mound, comb-pattern pottery, daily tools, fishing activities, ornaments, beliefs and rituals, external exchanges, and deer-pattern pottery.

Details

Korean-language guide service

Every Saturday and Sunday 10:00~17:00

Accessible travel information

Machine-translated from Korean.

Mobility

Access route

No step at the entrance, wheelchair accessible_Barrier-free facilities

Entrance passage

The main entrance has no level difference, so it is wheelchair accessible

Restroom

Accessible restroom available (in front of the shell mound residents' life exhibit)