From Decoration Back to Heritage: The Songja Daejeon Printing Woodblock, Daejeon 2026

Daejeon History Museum's fifth small exhibition of 2026, held September 30–November 24 in the permanent-gallery area, follows a Korean woodblock once used to print the writings of scholar Song Si-yeol. After the 1907 destruction of Hwanjangsa Temple in Goesan, a surviving block spent decades in the United States as wall decoration before being returned via the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation. An official city release identifies it as blocks for chapters 27–28 of volume 174, recarved at Namganjeongsa in 1926. General museum hours are 10:00–19:00 in October and 10:00–18:00 in November, with last entry 30 minutes before closing; normally closed Mondays.