Kimchi Field Museum

A word on kimchi, from Wikipedia:

Kimchi (pronounced /ˈkɪmtʃɪ/, Korean pronunciation: [kimtɕʰi]), also spelled gimchi, kimchee, or kim chee, is any one of numerous traditional Korean pickled dishes made of vegetables with varied seasonings. Its most common manifestation is the spicy baechu (cabbage) variety. Kimchi is the most common banchan, or side dish. Kimchi is also a common ingredient and combined with other ingredients to make dishes such as kimchi stew (kimchi jjigae) and kimchi fried rice (kimchi bokkeumbap). Kimchi is so ubiquitous that the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) developed space kimchi to accompany the first Korean astronaut to the Russian-manned space ship Soyuz.[1] (Huh! How about that!)

That being said, you can imagine how excited my friend Abbey and I were when we found out that we could, amongst many other things, do the following at the Kimchi Field Museum:

#5 - You can touch and smell the five ingredients of Cabbage Kimchi.
This, by the way, is what one of over 80 different kinds of kimchi can look like:

#8 - You can take your photograph in the company of a lady wearing a beautiful traditional Korean costume while you are posing with a radish kimchi model.
(Pose with a radish?! Totally rad!)

Source: Pulmuone Kimchi Field Museum Pamphlet

You could also, should you feel so inclined, sit down at an interactive table and, following the light show of moving hands, pretend to be eating kimchi yourself. The talented Abbey demonstrates:

We wondered about the raw symbolism of the ceiling, featuring hanging threads of paper napkins.

We admired the Kimchi art. Who knew kimchi could stir such devotion, could be the source of so much inspiration! These were my favorites:

Please note, if I may, the birth of Kimchi Man (in the last picture) as he slowly unfurls from the Kimchi Leaf. Touching. Beautiful! I couldn’t read the caption by the frame but I imagined him to be a type of all-encompassing deity, to whom you should send prayers of never going hungry. I imagined he looks after us all, from his cozy throne of Cabbage Kimchi. I felt peaceful. Anne Geddes becomes so... passé, once you've witnessed the serenity of this painting.

We did, however, completely miss #11, or the Tasting Room. I am sad to say we never even saw it.