Jangsaengpo Whale Museum is an open cultural space just for you.

The Jangsaengpo Whale Museum will provide more substantial exhibitions and a variety of experience and learning programs.
Jangsaengpo Whale Museum was established in Jangsaengpo, the advanced base for whaling, as the first whale museum in Korea. The museum collects, preserves, and displays whaling artifacts since the prohibition of whaling in 1986. The museum will be a resource for marine tourism by providing space for marine ecology system and education, research, and experience with a variety of information about whales.

• Location | (139-29 Maeam-dong) 244 Jangsaengpogorae-ro, Nam-gu, Ulsan
• Contact | +82-52-256-6301
• Ticketing Hours: 09:30~17:30
  Admission: 09:30~18:00
  Closed: Korean New Year’s Day and Korean Thanksgiving Day, every Monday, the day following public holidays, Thursdays when a public holiday is Saturday or Sunday or the next day of a public holiday is Saturday.

Whale Experience Hall

The Whale Experience Hall is located in Jangsaengpo Maritime Park, 248 Jangsaengpogorae-ro, Nam-gu, Ulsan. It was established on a total floor area of 1.834㎡ with 3 ground floors in Nov. 2009 for securing the infrastructure to experience marine culture and preserve the traditional culture related to whales. With the first dolphin aquarium in Korea, a sea creature aquarium and ecology exhibition hall, and diorama displaying the lifestyle during the whaling period of the past, the hall allows visitors to appreciate the past, present and future of Jangsaengpo at one glance. In particular, the hall is very popular among children because of its 4D theater, where children can encounter whales in a 3D movie on the second floor, and small animals, including reptiles and birds, on the third floor.

• Location | (139-29 Maeam-dong) 244 Jangsaengpogorae-ro, Nam-gu, Ulsan
• Contact | +82-52-256-6302
• Ticketing Hours: 09:30~17:30
  Admission: 09:30~18:00
  Closed: Korean New Year’s Day and Korean Thanksgiving Day, every Monday, the day following public holidays, Thursdays when a public holiday is Saturday or Sunday or the next day of a public holiday is Saturday.

The Whale Cruise invites you to find whales.

Encounter whales in their native waters along the east coast of Ulsan Jangsaengpo
※ Frequent Operation

• Period : April until Oct. (10:00, 14:30 on Tuesdays, 14:30 on Wednesdays and Thursdays)
• Requirements: at least 100 individuals are required for the cruise to operate, Exclusive operation for single groups of over 200 members.
• Operation is available when more than 150 individuals apply for a whale tour during weekdays.
• Flexible operation including an increase of sailing times in the case of additional demand during holidays.
• Operation by planning during festival periods including Ulsan Whale Festival.
• No operation on Mondays, Fridays and the days following public holidays.

• Location | (139-29 Maeam-dong) 244 Jangsaengpogorae-ro, Nam-gu, Ulsan
• Contact | +82-52-226-1900
• Whale Exploration
  Apr ~ Oct : TUE. ~ FRI. - 14:00~17:00 / SAT. SUN. - 10:00~13:00 , 14:00~17:00
  Nov : SAT. SUN. - 14:00~17:00
  ※ Closing : Every Monday

To be a global whale tourism city by forming a whale culture village.

Nam-gu will be a global whale tourism city by forming a ‘whale culture village’, a whale ecology experience park, as the only whale tourism infrastructure in Korea by connecting Jangsaengpo Whale Museum, Whale Ecology Center and Whale Cruise, which are all currently in operation.
History
May 2011 : Changed park construction plan and completed the master planning.
Oct. 2011 : Received a national grant for a city activation district development project from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation.
Nov. 2012 : Completed the master and working design.
Feb. 2013 : Approval of working plan.
March 2013 : Commenced construction and supervision.
April 14, 2013 : Held a groundbreaking ceremony.
Sep. 4, 2014 : Completed the construction of administration building (1) and toilet (2 buildings)
Oct. 2, 2014 : Completed electric and telecommunication systems construction.

• Location | (next to Ulsan Port Authority) 271 Jangsaengpogorae-ro, Nam-gu, Ulsan Metropolitan City
• Contact | +82-52-226-0980
• No schedule difference for weekends or seasons
  9 AM–6 PM (daily / last admission at 5:30 PM)
  ※ Closing : Every Monday