MUMUSCHOOL is an acronym of museum, music and school.

MUMUSCHOOL is an acronym of museum, music and school.

I.Purpose

Why do we want to discover remains of the past and preserve them? Such remains are not simple materials but humans’ peculiar lifestyles and their products. MUMUSCHOOL gives culture and arts education to put together all cultures and classes by making use of remains which are not only evidences of human history but marks of human culture as educational tools. As all cultures and sciences are rooted in nature, culture & arts constructs the most basic and expansive realm which is not specific to one realm. Accordingly, in such sense, MUMUSCHOOL would like to pursue culture and arts education to let all people enjoy on the basis of anthropology, archeology and naturalism. It was the human’s intellect and sensitivity which have played an important role in human life ever since the origin of mankind. In particular, the sensitivity made the human do creative and willful activities which are differentiated from animals. To communicate with other objects and express our own thoughts and feelings, the human has created and tried to find various ways of art expression such as wall painting, dancing, singing, playing musical instruments and so no. Such ways are related to cultural backgrounds and also filled with natural environments and lifestyles of the day, as well as artists’ thoughts and emotions. However, today the art, in fact, degraded to exclusive domains to be enjoyed by a small number of selected and then was at a standstill. Accordingly, MUMUSCHOOL would like to show a new direction for arts education, free from fragmentary ways of arts education which end in momentary experiences, and supply fields of arts to let people feel sympathy for it more easily and enjoy it.

II. Introduction of MUMUSCHOOL

MUMUSCHOOL is an acronym of museum, music and school. The school provides children with a field where they can understand the relationship between humanity and music and encounter various musical worlds through distinctive musical instruments of various tribes in the World. In the process, they have an opportunity to understand diversity of human culture, cultivate creativity and thus set the foundation for creation.

The museum of MUMUSCHOOL holds the secrets of human history such as arts, science and history. By touching and playing musical instruments of different peoples of the world, children realize that the musical instruments are not relics in the museum, but are played now across the globe, comprising a living culture, and develop sensibility and creativity.

Children have a time to meet sounds of various countries of the world, playing musical instruments in person and sensing sounds. The course, which consists of conversation between children and the moderator, develops children’s creativity and gives children confidence as the subject of musical activities.

[ History of Programme carried out ]
2011 • International Exposition Yeosu Korea 2012 : Official Culture and Arts Programme

2010 • National Museum of Korea, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Unesco World Conference on Arts Education , Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture and so on

2009 • Art Center Nabi, Youth Performing Arts Festival of the National Theater of Korea , Uijeongbu International Music Theatre Festival , Arte Creative Arts School for Children

2008 • Jeju National Museum, The National Library for Children & Young Adults, Gimhae Arts and Sports Center, Goyang Oulimnuri and so on

2007 • National Museum of Korea, Jeonju National Museum, Chuncheon National Museum, Korea Arts & Culture Education Service and so on