Three Revolutions Exhibition

The planetarium, shaped like Saturn
An exhibit of mining in North Korea

The Three Revolution Exhibition is a museum located in North Korea. The exhibition primarily showcases the three revolutions of Kim Il-sung, the ideological, technical, and cultural. It is in the Ryonmot-dong area, and its vast expansive grounds also displays many other ideologies of Juche idea: heavy industry, culture, and agriculture.[1] The central building has a shape resembling a spherical planet with rings, similar to the planet of Saturn. The dome itself also houses a planetarium. In the complex, there are six exhibits which detail North Korea's advances in electronics, heavy industry, agriculture, class education, and technology.[2] There is also an outdoor display of vehicles produced in North Korea.[2]

History

The museum was first established as a non-permanent Industrial and Agricultural Exhibition between 1946 and 1956, then improved to be the current Three Revolutions Exhibition in 1983, and further renovations took place in 1993. In 2015 museum still looked like it did not change since 1993 - featured common or already outdated technologies as hi-tech, and features technologies (tractors, modern cars and trains made in DPRK) rarely seen in operation throughout the country.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Democratic People's Republic of Korea - Museums (Archived April 3, 2013, at WebCite)
  2. 1 2 http://www.lonelyplanet.com/north-korea/pyongyang/sights/museums-galleries/three-revolutions-exhibition


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