Open Port Area & Museum

개항장·인천개항박물관

Today

Why go

At the Open Port Area & Museum, modern buildings still stand along the streets where foreign concessions grew up after the port opened in 1883. At the museum in an old bank building, you can explore open-port-era Incheon for 500 won.

Admission

₩500Adults, individual

Groups of 20+: ₩300
Ways in free: Free for children aged 12 and under; Free for visitors aged 65 and over (the operator does not say whether this covers foreign visitors)

Combined ticket ₩3,400 · Incheon Open Port Modern Architecture Museum · Incheon Open Port Museum · Daebul Hotel Exhibition Hall (Life History Museum) · Korean-Chinese Cultural Center (Incheon Overseas Chinese History Museum) · Jjajangmyeon Museum

Highlights

History

The Incheon Open Port Museum (仁川開港博物館) building was built in 1899 as the Incheon branch of the First Bank of Japan. It served as the Incheon branch of the Bank of Chosen and then of the Bank of Korea before becoming a museum in 2010. It is a late-Renaissance-style stone building with a dome in the center, and is Incheon Metropolitan City Tangible Cultural Heritage No. 7.

Getting there

Subway: Line 1 Incheon Station · Exit 18 min walk

Address: 인천광역시 제물포구 신포로23번길 89

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Where next

Incheon ChinatownWalk

Traditional markets within 2 km

신포시장: Sinpo Sijang0.7 km, straight line · Open every day176 stalls registered
송현자유시장: Songhyeonjayu Sijang1.1 km, straight line · Open every day91 stalls registered
중앙시장: Jungang Sijang1.2 km, straight line · Open every day57 stalls registered

Straight-line distance from Open Port Area & Museum, not walking or travel time. Market days are as registered. Market days, stall counts and facilities come from local-government registers and can differ on the day — holidays, weather and merchants’ associations change them. Call before you go.

Markets nearest to Open Port Area & Museum

Tips

The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday, 9:00–18:00, and entry closes at 17:30. It is closed on Mondays (or the following day if a Monday is a public holiday), January 1, and on Lunar New Year's Day and Chuseok Day.

To see the 5 museums of the old town together, including the Incheon Open Port Modern Architecture Museum and the Jjajangmyeon Museum, there is a combined ticket for 3,400 won for adults. The operator's fee table lists children aged 12 and under and visitors aged 65 and over as free.

Outside the museum, you can walk the streets of the open port at any time. If you book ahead, you can walk them with commentary from an Incheon culture and tourism guide.

Show details

Address: 인천광역시 제물포구 신포로23번길 89
Hours: 09:00–18:00
Last entry: 17:30
Closed: Closed Mon — if Mon is a public holiday it opens and closes the next weekday instead
Admission: ₩500