General Meetings of Members

• General Assembly
• Conference
• National Museum Day
• Annual Meeting for Celebration of the New Year

Education Programs

• Training workshop for young curators:
  Introductory lecture courses for university students and beginners who want to work in museums or related fields.
  
  
• Workshop for curators:
  Developed course for reeducation of curators in order to build up current information and techniques for museum works.
  
  
• Internship Program:
  Providing the opportunity for those who need mandatory work experience at a museum for the curator certificate.
  
  

Conference and Seminar

• Annual Symposium of Museums of Religions
• Seminars of Public Policy of Private Museums

Research Program

• Construction of online-networking system of museums in Korea

International Exchange Program

• KMA Research tour of Foreign Museums
  2005: Xian and Beijing, China

Publication

• Monographs
  - Museums of the World (Korean, 2004)
  - Museums in Korea (Korean and English)
  - Museum Theory and Practices (Korean, 2004)
  - Museology Series: Museology Ⅰ(Korean, 2000), Museology Ⅱ (Korean, 2001)
  - The Handbook of Museum Management (Korean, 2004)
  - Copyright for Museums (Korean, 2005)
  
  
• Proceedings
  - Preliminary Research of Building Network of Museums and Art Museums (Korean, 2004)
  - Establlishment and Management of a center for cooperation and support for the Museums and Art Museums
    (Korean, 2001, 2005)
  - The present and the future development plan of the Museums and the Art Museums of Religions (Korean, 2005)
  
  
• Journals
  - Korea Antiquity (by Korean Association of University Museums)
  
  
• Others
  - The KMA Yearly Diary and Scheduler (annually published for members’ use)
  

Lottery Fund Program (www.museumlottery.org)

• The program was launched in 2004 as to support private museums with a fund provided by the National Government from the Lottery Fund. Annually around 100 museums benefit from its financial and consultative supports for special exhibitions and improvement of facilities of preservation of collections.

Awards and Recognition

KMA Awards are endowed annually with museum specialists and related person who made outstanding contribution to development of museums. From 2005, Korean Government began to honor museum people with official commendations.

• The KMA Award Winners
  
  1998 Go, Yoo Seop (Gaeseong City Museum)
  1998 Kim, Jae Yeol (Deputy Director of Ho-Am Museum)
  1999 Lee, Gyeong Sung (ex-Director of National Museum of Contemporary Art)
  1999 Na, Seon Hwa (Chief Curator of Ewha Woman’s University Museum)
  2000 Choe, Soon Woo (ex-Director of National Museum of Korea)
  2000 Hwang, Soo Young (ex-Director of National Museum of Korea)
  2000 Jin, Hong Seop (Chair person of Cultural Properties Committee)
  2000 Shin, Tak Geun (ex-Director of On Yang Folk Museum)
  2001 Kim, Jae Won (ex-Director of National Museum of Korea)
  2001 Kim, Beom Ha (Director of Tongdosa Museum)
  2002 Kim, Won Ryong (ex-Director of National Museum of Korea)
  2002 Kim, Se Jung (ex-Director of National Museum of Contemporary Art)
  2002 Oh, Yoon Sun (Director of Horim Museum)
  2003 Huh, Dong Hwa (Director of The Museum of Korean Embroidery)
  2003 Kim, Yun Soon (Director of Hankuk Art Museum)
  2003 Kim, Hong Won (Chief Curator of Busan Museum)
  2004 Seok, Joo Sun (ex-Director of Suk Joo-Sun Memorial Museum)
  2004 Jo, Ja Ryong (ex-Director of Former Emile Museum)
  2004 Kim, Quae Jung (Director of Handok Medico-Pharmna Museum)
  2005 Son, Bo Gi (Honorary Director of Seokjangri Museum)
  2005 Lee, Kang, Chil (ex-Director of Korea Army Museum)
  2005 Kim, Hong Nam (Director of National Folk Museum of Korea)
  2005 Jung, Jun Mo (Director of National Museum of Art Deoksugung)