Written: September 27, 2026

Our own visit (September 26, 2026), not sponsored. Hours, closing days and Dino Kids World fees come from Iksan City's official pages for the Jewelry Museum and Dino Kids World (checked October 6, 2026); the phone number, museum admission and parking come from Naver Place (checked October 6, 2026). The character illustrations are GPT-generated images.

Iksan Jewelry Museum & Dinosaur Theme Park with Kids — Chuseok Folk Games, a Hangeul Jewelry Exhibition, and an Outdoor Dino Playground That Filled the Day

Our day out in Iksan with the kids 🦕

At the tail end of the Chuseok holiday
(Korea’s harvest festival),
we took the kids
to the Jewelry Museum in Iksan.

Then we spent the whole afternoon
at the outdoor playground
of the Dinosaur Theme Park next door.

The Jewelry Museum and its pyramid-shaped glass exterior

To cut to the chase:
even though we couldn’t use
the indoor play facilities,

the outdoor playground alone
was enough for a full day!

💎 A glass pyramid museum

The museum is
a big glass pyramid.

Out front, a fountain
was shooting up, nice and cool.

The fountain in front of the Jewelry Museum's entrance

🎯 Folk games for Chuseok

As luck would have it,
the museum was running
traditional folk game activities
for Chuseok.

Under the eaves
there were spots set up
for tuho (pitch-pot)
and ddakji (paper-tile flipping),
and our kid had a go
at throwing the tuho arrows.

Tuho — a child throwing an arrow, with the ddakji spot behind

According to the museum,
the event ran
from September 24 to 27.

🔤 Hangeul turned into jewels

In the special exhibition gallery
there was an invited exhibition called
’Hangeul Becomes Design’
(한글, 디자인이 되다).

It’s jewelry made
in the very shapes of Hangeul,
the Korean alphabet.

The ‘Hangeul Becomes Design’ banner at the entrance to the special exhibition gallery

Letter strokes become brooches,
and colorful Hangeul pieces
dangle from necklaces.

The work cards
had titles like
’Hangeul, Blooming’
(silver, cubic zirconia)
and artist Kim Kyung-mi’s
’Movement of the Stroke (획 劃)‘
(gold, gemstones).

Brooches that keep the shapes of Hangeul letters, and a piece that draws strokes in gold wire

A dragon-shaped piece hung with colorful Hangeul pieces

Necklaces and brooches in another display case

This invited exhibition ran
from September 16 to October 5,
so it has ended now.

In the plaza in front of the museum
stands a sculpture of a giant ring
with jewels hanging from it.
Just the thing for a jewelry museum.

The ring-and-jewel sculpture in the plaza in front of the museum

🦖 The Dinosaur Theme Park next door

Right next to the Jewelry Museum
is the Dinosaur Theme Park,
home to Dino Kids World.

Unfortunately,
we didn’t get to use
the indoor play facilities.

📍 Iksan Dinosaur Theme Park (익산 공룡테마공원) — open in Naver Map

There are dinosaurs
standing everywhere.

Trilobite fossils are carved
into the rock pillars,
and our kid even got to touch
a Tyrannosaurus tooth.

A child touching a Tyrannosaurus tooth, with trilobites carved into the rock behind

You can even walk in
under a giant T. rex head
with its jaws wide open.

A path that passes under a giant open-mouthed T. rex head

🛝 What the kids loved

✔ An enormous slide
(a ‘spiral slide’ sign
at the bottom of the tower)
✔ A life-size Brachiosaurus
✔ Fossils buried in the ground
✔ Dinosaurs shown as skeletons
✔ Rope climbing woven like a spider web
✔ Zip lines here and there

The giant slide tower and dinosaur sculptures

There are information boards
next to the dinosaurs, too.

Maiasaura is thought to be
the first dinosaur
to truly raise its young,
so it was given a scientific name
meaning ‘good mother lizard’.

It was 9–10 m long,
2.5 m tall
and weighed 4 t, the board says.

Maiasaura and its information board

🎫 Admission & fees

Jewelry Museum
Adults 3,000 won
Teens & military 2,000 won
Children 1,000 won
Half price for Iksan residents
(per the price list on Naver Place)

Dino Kids World indoor (1 hour)
Adults, teens & toddlers 4,000 won
Children (ages 7–12) 6,000 won
(8,000 won on weekends)

Outdoor slide · Sky Jump
3,000 won per go
Roll Glider: children 4,000 won
(adults & teens 8,000 won)

(per Iksan City’s official Dino Kids World page)

⏰ Hours & closing days

Jewelry Museum 10:00–18:00
(tickets sold until
1 hour before closing)

Dino Kids World 10:00–17:00
(until 18:00 on weekends
and holidays in June–August)

Both are closed
every Monday and on January 1
(if a Monday is a public holiday,
they open and close
the next weekday instead)

(per Iksan City’s official pages)

👍 Who this is for

✔ Anyone who wants a museum
and a playground in one day
✔ Anyone looking for an outdoor spot
where dino-loving kids can run free
✔ Anyone on a day out in Iksan
who needs to tire the kids out

We saw folk games
and Hangeul jewelry at the museum,
then spent the afternoon
at the dino park next door.

Even if you can’t get inside,
the kids’ day will be full!

🗺 More from the same Chuseok holiday in Iksan

That evening: Mireuksaji (Mireuksa Temple Site) media art in Iksan → read it

The day before: Earth Under Park (어스언더파크) → read it

Dinner the evening before: Maillard87 (마이야르87) → read it

📍 Iksan Jewelry Museum (익산보석박물관) — open in Naver Map

From our visit on September 26, 2026 (Chuseok holiday). The Chuseok folk game activities (September 24–27) and the ‘Hangeul Becomes Design’ exhibition (September 16 – October 5) have ended. Hours, closing days and Dino Kids World fees follow Iksan City's official pages for the Jewelry Museum (jewelmuseum.go.kr) and Dino Kids World (iksan.go.kr/dino, checked October 6, 2026); the phone number, museum admission and parking come from Naver Place (checked October 6, 2026). All of this may change. The character illustrations are GPT-generated images.

Translated from our Korean post with AI assistance. Dates, hours, fees and other numbers were checked against the Korean original, Iksan City's official pages and Naver Place on October 6, 2026. We did not check English signage at the museum or the park. Original post (Korean)