Ulsan Petroglyph Museum (Ulsan)

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Ulsan Petroglyph Museum displays exhibits the petroglyphs on the cliffs adjacent to the Daegok River, a tributary of the Taehwa River. These rock panels depict land and sea animals as well as hunting and whaling scenes and realistically show the ecology and the living conditions of the time when the rock engravings were made.

Sea animals like whales, turtles, fish and other land animals like deer, wild boar, tigers, foxes, wolves and raccoons are depicted on the panels. Whaling scenes in which spears and floating balls are used from a ship shows that the people of the region utilized whaling and that a superior marine culture existed in Ulsan Bay in the remote past.

Although there are numerous petroglyphs around the world, the Bangudae Petroglyphs depict the most dynamic and vivid figures so specific that the animals can be classified by species. This rock art is appraised as a world cultural heritage which shows the marine culture of the Prehistoric Age and the first ruins of whaling existing in the world.