The Busan Museum of Movies (부산영화체험박물관) is an indoor film museum in Jung-gu, near Jungang Station. It is built around hands-on rooms, photo sets and a story about films, and it is a plan B when the weather turns. This guide covers the hours, the ticket prices on the museum’s own website, parking, what the zones contain, and what we could not confirm.
We checked our sources on 3 October 2026: the museum’s Korean-language website, Visit Busan (the city’s official tourism site) and the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) listing. The family section below comes from our own visit.
Our Family Visit: The Green Screen Made Them Laugh
We visited with our two children, then 5 and 3. In the chroma-key experience they put on capes, and when the screen showed them flying like superheroes they laughed until they were breathless. That hands-on room, not the film-history displays, is what our notes remember, so with young children it is the part to leave time for.
That day we took photos at Democracy Park and the Daecheong-dong Color Village before the museum, then had dinner at the original Lee Jae-mo Pizza, where the serving robot held the children’s attention for the whole meal. The wait was very long. Our notes suggest avoiding peak mealtimes, or registering on the waiting list (CatchTable or the restaurant’s own system) as soon as you arrive and walking nearby Gwangbok-ro while you wait. Parking there meant a paid lot nearby, such as Jungang Public Parking Lot. Queue systems and parking change, so check the current procedure before you go.
Family notes added 15 October 2026. The visit date was not recorded. The children were aged 5 and 3 at the time.
What It Is
KTO describes the museum as the first facility in Korea devoted to film exhibits and hands-on experiences, with displays that explain how film works and let visitors try making it. That “first” is KTO’s claim and we did not check it. The address is 12 Daecheong-ro 126beon-gil, Jung-gu (대청로126번길 12).
The museum’s website says its exhibits follow a film-exploration story. Visitors travel back to Busan about 100 years ago to find five lost “core films,” and complete experiences along the way to win them. Visit Busan adds that the route starts with a time-travel train, and that a chroma-key studio lets visitors film and edit scenes.
What You See Inside
The museum’s website lists two experience floors, 3F and 4F. On the 3F page it names a “Film City Central Station,” where you get your mission and board the time-travel train. On the 4F page it names a “Cinema Festival” zone based on the Busan International Film Festival, with screens that move to follow your gaze. It gives no zone-by-zone floor plan, so we cannot say how long each takes.
The Cine Museum (씨네뮤지엄) is a separate part of the site’s menu. Its page describes experience studios built from film scenes, with eight numbered themes:
- Back to the 80’s, a rock-and-roll and hippie-style set.
- Cinema Busan, a five-wall video artwork of Busan scenery.
- Retro Street, which recreates 1970s and 80s film streets and shops.
- Fantasy World, a dreamy, mysterious set.
- Magic Mirror, a mirrored room with hanging lights.
- Adventure Awards, an analog photo spot.
- Romantic Pink, where an AI tool makes a movie poster with your face.
- Infinity Media, where mirrors and motion sensors react to your movement.
The Cine Museum is sold on its own or in a combined ticket, which we cover below. We could not tell which of our photos show which zone, so we describe what each shows and do not label zones.
The website also lists facilities: a 210-seat multipurpose video hall on the basement and first floors, with three seats reserved for wheelchairs and strollers, a 30-seat classroom on the first floor, and a Museum Lounge on the second floor that displays figures and original posters of popular films.
Hours, Closing Days and Ticket Prices
The museum’s website lists 10:00 to 18:00, with entry and ticketing closing at 17:00. It is closed every Monday (the next day if Monday is a public holiday), on 1 January, and on the days of Seollal and Chuseok. KTO and Visit Busan give the same hours and closing days.
The website’s price table, in won, is below. “Combined” means the museum plus the Cine Museum.
| Ticket | Museum | Cine Museum | Combined | |—|—|—|—| | Adult | 10,000 | 10,000 | 14,000 | | Child or teen (36 months to high school) | 7,000 | 7,000 | 11,000 | | Groups of 20 or more, adult | 5,000 | 5,000 | 9,000 | | Busan resident, adult | 7,000 | 7,000 | 13,000 |
We found no separate foreign-visitor price, and the table has no date, so check it before you go. The site lists free entry for children under 36 months and for people 65 and older with ID, and for registered disabled visitors with one companion. It also lists discounts for Busan multi-child families. We did not check any of those rules in detail.
The site’s visitor rules include: same-day tickets only, no re-entry after leaving, no refunds after entry, no stacking of discounts, no food, no pets except guide dogs, and no wheeled shoes, kick scooters or skates. The whole museum is non-smoking.
Getting There and Parking
Visit Busan says to walk 5 minutes from Exit 5 of Jungang Station (중앙역) on Busan Metro Line 1. It also lists buses 126, 15, 186, 81 and 86 to the Baeksan Memorial Hall stop, then a 3-minute walk. We did not verify the walking times or bus frequency.
On parking, the museum’s website says visitors with a paid ticket get the first hour free, then pay by the 10 minutes. It also lists a maximum vehicle height of 2.1 meters. Visit Busan also says the first hour is free, while KTO’s fee line (500 won for the first 10 minutes) appears to match the site’s rate for people who are not paying visitors. The exact fees change by ticket type, so use the site’s table if you drive.
The sign above is the museum’s outdoor billboard and logo post, according to KTO’s photo. The photo date is unknown.
For phone numbers, the museum’s site gives 051-715-4200, while KTO and Visit Busan give 0507-1377-4201. We do not know which one an English speaker should call.
The museum is close to other stops in our Nampo plan. In a straight line, it is about 280 meters from Jaemo Pizza and about 160 meters from the Choryang Waegwan site (our estimates from listing coordinates). See our Democracy Park and Color Village guide for how we link them, and our Yongdusan Park guide.
First-Timer Tips
These are our suggestions, not sourced facts.
- Avoid Mondays, and aim to arrive well before the 17:00 last entry. We have no sourced time that is enough for a visit.
- Decide before you buy whether you want the Cine Museum, since the combined ticket cannot be refunded in parts.
- Bring ID if you plan to use an age-based or resident discount.
- Do not rely on English signs until you check. We did not find a source.
FAQ
Is the museum open on Tuesdays? Yes. It is closed on Mondays, according to the museum, KTO and Visit Busan.
What is the last entry time? 17:00, according to the museum’s website.
How much is an adult ticket? The museum’s price table lists 10,000 won for the museum, 10,000 for the Cine Museum and 14,000 combined.
Is there parking? Yes. The museum’s site says the first hour is free for paid-ticket visitors.
Is it good in the rain? It is an indoor museum, so it is a reasonable choice, but the walk from the metro is outdoors and we did not time it.
What We Could Not Confirm
- Walking times, bus frequency and last buses.
- Foreign-visitor pricing, and whether the price table is current.
- Which zone each photo shows, and how long a visit takes.
- English signs, an English audio guide or an English version of the website.
- Which phone number an English speaker should use.
Related guides
- Democracy Park and Color Village in Jung-gu
- Yongdusan Park, Busan Tower and Bosu-dong
- Busan Rainy Day Guide
- Gukje Market and Jagalchi Guide
We post short first-timer guides on Instagram too: @rolo.koreaguide.
Sources
Checked on 3 Oct 2026.
- Busan Museum of Movies (official website, in Korean): hours and prices https://www.busanbom.kr/contents/01_info/sub0101.html ; address, phone and parking https://www.busanbom.kr/contents/01_info/sub0102.html ; facilities https://www.busanbom.kr/contents/01_info/sub04.html ; 3F zone https://www.busanbom.kr/contents/02_exhibition/sub0101.html ; 4F zone https://www.busanbom.kr/contents/02_exhibition/sub0102.html ; Cine Museum https://www.busanbom.kr/contents/02_exhibition/sub0601.html .
- Visit Busan (official Busan tourism site), Busan Museum of Movies: https://www.visitbusan.net/index.do?menuCd=DOM_000000302008001000&uc_seq=1640&lang_cd=en .
- Korea Tourism Organization, TourAPI (Korean service): Busan Film Experience Museum (content ID 2554068). Photographs from this listing (KOGL Type 3) used unaltered.
- Distances: straight-line calculations from the KTO listing coordinates, not walking routes.
