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  • 2025
    • October 5th Special Exhibition "Festina Lente: Aldo Manuzio, The Publisher Who Changed the World" opens
      3st International Conference "The Spread of Phonetic Scripts: Beyond the Tower of Babel" held
      MOU signed with Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma · Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana di Venezia
    • July MOU signed with Egypt Library of Alexandria
    • May 5th Special Exhibition "Imagine, The World Created by Gustave Doré" opens
    • April Surpassed 2 million cumulative visitors
  • 2024
    • November Achieved 100,000 annual visitors
    • October 4th Special Exhibition "L'Olympia Odyssey - Language And Feminism, Expressions in the Total Artworks" opens
      2st International Conference "Alphabeticus Originalis" held
      MOU signed with Royal Aisatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
    • August MOU signed with Kansong Art Foundation
    • July MOU signed with China Museum of World Writing
    • May Surpassed 1 million cumulative visitors
    • April 3rd Special Exhibition "Singing the Colors of Children’s Heart AND Mind" opens
  • 2023
    • December 2nd Special Exhibition "Text and Illustration - Meet Albrecht Dürer's prints" opens
    • October MOU signed with Champollion Museum of World Writing, France
    • September MOU signed with Incheon Metropolitan city office of education
    • June 1st Special Exhibition "Too Long, Didn’t Read ― What Is the Future of Writing Systems?" opens
      1st International Conference "Museum, Discuss about Writing Systems" held
    • June The National Museum of World Writing Systems opens
  • 2022
    • October Construction completed
  • 2019
    • November The groundbreaking ceremony held
    • April The construction lot secured through land donation
  • 2017
    • September The International design competition held
    • April The National Museum of World Writing Systems Construction Committee formed
  • 2015
    • July Songdo selected as museum venue from 9 candidate cities
  • 2014
    • September The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism decides to construct the National Museum of World Writing Systems
  • 2013
    • December Hunminjeongeum Society (Wonam Cultural Foundation chaired by Lee Gi-nam) proposes the construction of a museum of world writing systems