Daegu Art Museum
대구미술관
Daegu's contemporary art museum, known for major contemporary art exhibitions and retrospectives of the “Daegu Modern Art Movement”, with a comfortable building and outdoor lawns.
Daegu Art Museum opened in 2011 at the foot of Daedeok Mountain in Samdeok-dong, Suseong-gu. Its high-ceilinged main gallery often hosts large-scale contemporary art exhibitions, and it has held solo shows by Yayoi Kusama and Seo Do-hwak, setting visitor records. The collection focuses on Korean contemporary art since the “Daegu Modern Art Festival” of the 1970s. Outdoors there are sculptures and lawns, ideal for a stroll. The permanent exhibition costs about 1,000 won; special exhibitions are charged separately. Getting there: take Subway Line 2 to Daegu Grand Park Station and transfer to a bus for about 10 minutes.
Opening hours
Tue–Sun 10:00 AM–7:00 PM; closed Mondays
Nearby sights
- Daegu National Museum
- Suseongmot Lake
- Kim Gwang-seok Street
- Otgol Village
- Gukchae-bosang Movement Memorial Park
- Dongseong-ro
- Daegu Yangnyeongsi Herbal Medicine Market
- Bullo-dong Tumuli Park