Onyang Folk Museum in Asan, South Chungcheong Province, is presenting a special exhibition throughout May that reconnects regional life histories with the memories embedded in everyday objects.
Operated by the Gujeong Cultural Foundation, the museum was selected for the “Museum x Enjoy” program as part of the 2026 Museum and Art Museum Week initiative. From May 2 through May 31, the museum is holding “Repair Shop Inside the Museum IV: Old Things and Gifts,” an exhibition centered on restoring connections between memory, objects, and local communities through disappearing items from everyday rural life.
Presented as the fourth installment of the “Repair Shop Inside the Museum” series, the exhibition reconstructs traces of vanishing rural life in Chungcheongnam-do through ordinary objects. Based on items and village stories collected and documented in the regions of Asan, Yesan, and Hongseong, the exhibition reinterprets worn and discarded objects as cultural assets carrying the compressed memories of relationships, labor, and changing historical eras.
Rather than simply displaying artifacts, the exhibition organizes the processes of collecting, documenting, and repairing into a single narrative structure. Five participating artists — Kim Jun-hwan (metal craft), Kim Yoo-sang (ceramics), Large Medium Small (design), Park Jun-ha (blacksmithing), and Lee Ji-su (traditional earthenware) — reinterpret the form and meaning of objects through different materials and techniques.
The museum also plans to continue accumulating interviews and archival materials after the exhibition concludes, developing them into long-term regional research resources.
Programs inviting direct visitor participation are also scheduled throughout the exhibition period. Every Saturday, craft workshops led by participating artists will allow visitors to experience repair processes using natural materials and old objects. Operated through advance reservations, the workshops are designed to explore the meaning of sustainable repair through hands-on craft practices.
Additional weekend programs, including activities on the substitute holiday on May 25, will take place at the museum’s outdoor “Godrae Table” garden space. Using traditional materials such as sedge, straw, and bamboo, visitors can experience the weaving techniques once used to create everyday household tools.
The exhibition ultimately focuses on reconnecting disappearing objects and fading memories through the act of “repair,” extending the textures of regional life history into the present day.
Reported by News Culture M.J._mj94070777@nc.press
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