Under the order of President Park Chung Hee in October 1970 and, thanks to the donations of the people who
respect Ahn, the original Ahn Jung Geun Memorial Museum was founded in the present site located in Mountain
Namsan, downtown Seoul. As the museum had become worn out and could not meet the volume of the items
on display due to its smaller size, President Roh Moo-hyun ordered to rebuild a museum at the request of the
Ahn Jung-geun Society and the Korea Liberation Association.
With the launch of a new museum building in 2010, we are fully dedicated to displaying the articles left by Ahn
and other related materials and documents to the public and enhancing the thoughts and the spirits of Ahn
further. We hope that the new museum will serve as a hall for a living lesson that could reawaken the value of
the existence of the nation and the people for the young generation and their descendent, could cherish those
patriots who sacrificed themselves to the cause of the country’s independence and the people’s prosperity as
our real pride, and finally could help establish a model and essence of life for the Korean people.
October 26, 2010
Kim Hwang-sik, chief director of the Ahn Jung-geun Society.