On October 10, the opening ceremony of the 60th anniversary special exhibition was held at Dongguk University Museum. The special exhibition, planned to mark the 60th anniversary of the museum's opening, will be available from October 11 to December 26 on the second floor of the museum. Many people attended the opening ceremony, including President Yoon Jae-woong, monk Don-gwan, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Choi Eung-cheon, the head of the Cultural Heritage Administration, and Lim Young-ae, the director of the museum. In particular, Lim Young-ae, the museum’s director, thanked the former museum directors for their great efforts in collecting relics in her welcoming speech and gave a speech promoting the value of the relics owned by Dongguk University Museum. In addition, the exhibition relics of this special exhibition are composed only of museum collections, and she expressed her intention to promote the excellence of the relics the museum own.
Dongguk University Museum was opened in 1963 and is located in the building next to the current Hyehwagwan. Focusing on Buddhist art, academic research at domestic and foreign and research on cultural heritage collection are continuously being conducted. The first special exhibition was the Shilla Beomjong Takbon in 1967, and since then, a special exhibition has been held under various themes, and this year’s special exhibition will focus on Buddha statues and Buddhist paintings. In the view of the Dongkuk Post, interesting artifacts were found not only in the special exhibition on the second floor but also in the general exhibition on the first floor. The Dongguk Post recommends you to see interesting Buddhist relics that can only be felt at Dongguk University.