The Busan Museum of Art has reopened its doors after a renovation that kept the building closed for nearly two years. The municipal museum, which shut in December 2024, returns with a reopening program designed to reposition it as a civic platform linking citizens and society with questions of technology and nature. The relaunch unfolds across several strands. 'Future Museology' addresses how the museum itself should function in the years ahead, while 'Rebuilding the Museum' reflects on the institution's own transformation during the closure. A historical thread, 'Society and Art: From Liberation to the Korean War', connects the museum's program to Korea's modern history, and 'Safe Base' rounds out the thematic framework. The reopening also brings an updated presentation of the museum's Lee Ufan Space, dedicated to the Korean-born artist closely associated with the Mono-ha movement. Founded in 1998, the Busan Museum of Art is the principal public art museum of South Korea's second city, and the scale of the closure made the reopening one of the most closely watched institutional events in the Korean art calendar this autumn. The renovation was understood from the outset as more than a building upgrade: planning documents described the ambition to remake the museum's relationship with its public. Whether the new programming delivers on that ambition will become clearer over the coming months, but the opening gesture is deliberate. Rather than returning with a single blockbuster, the museum has chosen to reopen with a program about itself, its city and its possible futures, inviting visitors to judge the institution on the terms it has set.