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Exhibition visit: Haenyeo, Women of the Sea, at National Maritime Museum

posted updated 3 Dec 2017 by Philip Gowman 2 minute read

The National Maritime Museum, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Maritime Greenwich, played host to an exhibition featuring South Korea’s latest inclusion in UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage. Life-size photographs of Jeju’s famous diving women were dotted around a building which began life in 1807 as a school for the children of British seafarers. […]

Exhibition news: Haenyeo – Women of the Sea, at National Maritime Museum

posted updated 3 Dec 2017 by Events Editor 2 minute read

Korea’s latest addition to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage register makes an appearance in Greenwich this month. Full-size portraits of Jeju’s famous diving women by Hyung S. Kim; another chance to experience Mikhail Karikis’s video and sound installation Sea Women (LKL reviews the 2012 Wapping installation of the work here); plus, if like me you […]