page_title: Citrus Museum
section_title: History and location
hierarchical_section_title: Citrus Museum / History and location
caption_attribution_description: English: Seogwipo Citrus Museum, Jeju.
context_page_description: The Citrus Museum, also known as Seogwipo Citrus Museum is a public museum which opened on Jeju, South Korea in 2005, dedicated to Jeju's speciality product, the local citrus. It is managed and operated by Seogwipo city government. The museum displays items related to the history and culture of citrus and the citrus industry.
context_section_description: The museum opened on February 25, 2005 in the Sinhyo-dong district of Seogwipo City, at the foot of Wollabong Peak. Located on a sprawling hillside, the facilities include the museum, an artificial waterfall, a citrus experiential learning field, a farming recreation complex and an agricultural product distribution center. The specific goal was described by the museum's manager, Hyun-gwan Cheol in 2011, "We need to tell people about the value of citrus. We need to save [its] history".
  The museum is an affiliate of the citrus industry in Jeju Island along with the Citrus Research Station, the Climate Change Research Center and South Korea’s National Gardening & Herbal Medicine Research Institute.  It is recognized by citrus researchers as a source of information for the history and development of the citrus industry in South Korea, as well as citrus-related technologies, products and entertainments.
  In 2015, The Korea Times reported that Jeju produces most of the citrus fruit consumed domestically in Korea with a total of 3,600 tons of fruit exported in 2014; 1,500 tons going to Britain, and 722 tons going to Canada. Some of the local fruits are the gamgyul, which is grown in open fields; hallabong, created especially for Jeju, and cheonhaehyang, both grown in greenhouses; and unshu, grown in fields and greenhouses.
  Generations of rural families supported themselves and their children's education with the industry, especially from the 1970s to the 1990s. Dropping prices in 2002 caused the farmers to diversify, some branching into the tourism industry with "experience programs", where visitors picked their own fruit. The government provided the farmers subsidies to help stabilize prices, with gamgyul picking retaining its important role in the island's culture and economy. 
  Juju has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and the Korea Tourism Organization named the museum as one of eighteen named "special tourist zones" of Jeju Island.
caption: Citrus museum buggy ride.
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