2000년 이후 국내 디자인 미술관의 디자인 전시 특징

“Design Museum” and “design exhibitions” appeared in the sociocultural background of the developed consumer culture and the trend of considering the design of as economic value-added means. The purpose of this study is to understand the characteristics of famous design museums in Korea and to analyze the design exhibitions in each museum since 2000. The subjects were the exhibitions in Hangaram Design Museum, Daerim Art Museum, and Dongdaemun Design Plaza, which are representative museums being actively engaged in design exhibitions until today. The outlines of the exhibition introduced on their websites, articles published in the magazine and newspapers, and museum operation reports mentioning the exhibitions. Design museums have different exhibition characteristics depending on the background of establishment and purpose of operation. When they were analyzed in the analytical framework, it was found that Hangaram Design Museum focused on public design area in its early times, Daerim Museum focused on “exhibitions focusing on fashion and people”, and Dongdaemun Design Plaza focused on large exhibitions and public design contents related to City of Seoul. Based on this, I have summarized the comprehensive characteristics of the exhibitions in the Design Museum as the following four points. First, art exhibitions and design exhibitions are mixed. Second, there is a complex characteristics between the areas of art and design in the contents of the exhibition. Third, there was an emergence of space rental exhibitions making a lot of money in a short period of time. Finally, exhibitions have characteristics focusing on the people representing brands. While each museum has different modes of operation and purposes, there is a common feature that goes back and forth between the survival in the real world such as profit creation and the role of cultural discourses.