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If you are visiting Korea and heading to Seoul, it is worth visiting the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, set up in a complex of three interconnected buildings. Some people visit just to view these three, architect designed buildings. The South Korea-based technology giant Samsung has created one of the finest corporate art collections and it encourages public viewing of the collection through the creation of this wonderful venue for art.

In building one, there is 120 objects on display, from the prehistoric era to the Chosun Dynasty (1395-1910). A sleek glass-and-steel structure by architect Jean Nouvel,

Museum II contains Korean and international modern and contemporary art, from 1910 on. Among the works on view are major examples by Rothko, Stella, Judd, Beuys, Nam June Paik, Damien Hirst, Matthew Barney, Lee Bul and Do-Ho Suh.

The third building, the so-called Black Box, designed by Rem Koolhaas, holds the Samsung Child Education and Culture Center, which contains classrooms as well as galleries for temporary exhibitions.

Well worth a visit. 
 


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