Pound Family Adventures: Rolling Ball and Fun Museum

Just like they have a ton of themed cafes in Seoul they also have a lot of museums. Some of the museums are historical, some are cultural, some are dedicated to the arts, some are very random (they have an entire museum dedicated to rice) and some are for fun. In fact, they even have a museum called "The Fun Museum". The Fun Museum is right across the way from The Rolling Ball museum. One humid, rainy afternoon we decided to visit the Rolling Ball and Fun museum.

We started with the Rolling Ball Museum. You may be wondering "What is a rolling ball museum?", we were wondering the same thing. I had just read it was a fun place to take older kids. After buying our very cheap tickets we walked inside and realized it was an entire room filled with huge marble tracks.

They had some that were interactive.

Some massive ones.


This one was all wooden with a large, metal ball rolling around in it.

Some that were just fun to watch.

They were in all shapes and sizes.

They even had one you could build yourself.

Russ and I are waiting while the girls worked on building their own marble track.

This was a huge one that the ball would spin around based on the way you moved the wheel. We all worked up a sweat turning the wheel.

They had these great signs describing each of the tracks. I definitely think something was lost in translation on a few of the signs.

What in the world is a "schanze"?

We had a great time and spent over an hour walking around, watching and playing with the marble tracks before we headed over to the Fun Museum.

Just like the Rolling Ball Museum, the Fun Museum was exactly like it sounded. It was a museum (or rather a large room) filled with "fun" or funny items. We had a great time taking pictures of each other.

A ton of people smoke in Korea. Russ and I often joke that they haven't figured out that smoking is bad for your health yet. They had these funny gloves in the museum where you could hold your cigarette without having to take your hand out of the glove.

For the record I have never seen anyone here use these things.

Some fun book covers.

They had these silverware crowns that Russ and I put on as well as this glove so that you could hold hands in the wintertime but still keep your hands warm.

The whole place was filled with quirky, fun stuff for us to try on. We went on a week day when the Korean kids were still in school so we had the entire place to ourselves.

This is a toilet paper holder that as the toilet paper runs out the man and lady figures get closer together until they are kissing when the roll is empty.

They called these "The Disco King of Wash Up" dish scrubbers.

This was an egg white separator where the egg white comes out of the nose. Pretty gross and funny at the same time.

They even had a rolling ball track in this museum as well. This was the biggest one I have ever seen. It was made of steel and it used a bowling ball. We had to turn the wheel to get the bowling ball to the top.

At the end of the Fun Museum, we thought the fun had come to an end for the day; but oh how wrong we were. They had another small museum that was included with our ticket that was full of bears that were dressed up. Remember in an earlier post I told you how the Koreans like to dress up bears and take pictures of them? Kind of freaky to me, but they think it is cute.