SIMONE HANDBAG MUSEUM

Museum Info:

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17 Dosan-Daero 13 Gil (Sinsa-Dong), Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 135-889

(Sinsa station: subway Line 3, exit 8, located on Garosugil)

☎ 02-3444-0912
Admission: KRW5,000

Opens Tue-Thu 11:00-20:00
           Fri-Sat    11:00-21:00
           Sun         11:00-19:00
Closed Mon
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Features:
bag-shaped museum building
'Handbag Museum' featuring antique/vintage designer bag exhibits (3F~5F)
'Bagstage multi-shop' (bag boutique shop)(2F)
Museum Shop & Café (-1F)

Material Bazaar (-2F~-3F)

Comments:
You might not notice it up close, but if you look at the building from across the street, you should see that the museum building is in the shape of a bag - the first thing that attracted me to go visit it when I saw it being introduced in a magazine.

Being a bag fanatic myself, I quite enjoyed the tour overall (but I guess maybe not something of interest to the guys...).  The only downside (like some other museums in general) was that no photo taking was allowed inside although they were still courteous enough to allow some limited sections for photos.

bag-shaped building with a handle at the top; cafe with outdoor seating on 1F at the front of
the building; bag boutique store on the 2F

some outdoor cafe seating

10 floor building

KRW5,000 admission ticket

first 'photo zone' is outside on the 3F but not much to see here with just 2 mannequin exhibits but with no bags in sight

the 5F exhibits thats also a 'photo zone' luckily with some bags in sight

  

Museum shop (door was closed when we walked by though)

Museum cafe

Museum Cafe interior

bag exhibits inside the Museum Cafe

Material Bazaar

the workshop