Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan
Waterfront gallery of nature-themed contemporary art on a restored island once used as a city landfill.
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This guide to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan opens with a question about the ground beneath your feet on Eulsukdo island, once one of East Asia's finest migratory bird habitats before a 1987 dam sealed the river mouth and the wetlands dried into a city dumping ground through the 1980s and 90s. It follows what Busan chose to do with that land instead of simply burying it, from a skating oval and ball fields to a drive-in theater and a sculpture garden, before the museum itself opened in 2018 around themes of nature, new media and people. Look toward the water and you might still spot swans on the wetland to the south.
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