Another trip to a museum in Jeju... We went to the Teddy Bear Museum! Teddy Bears are knd of a serious thing in my family. Every new baby gets a new teddy bear!
The story of the Teddy Bear starts here...
Teddy Bear story began in a strange place - the woods of the U.S. in Nov. 1902. President Roosevelt was on a bear hunting trip, something he really enjoyed. At the end of his trip, he had not had the chance to hunt a single bear.
One of his staff members caught a bear cub and leashed it to a tree for President Roosevelt to shoot. When he saw it, he said, "It is not a sportsmanlike behavior!" He lowered his gun and ordered his associates to release the bear.
Clifford Berryman, a cartoonist for the Washington Post, drew a cartoon to accompany the story of what happened at the hunting trip. The cartoon, published on November 16, 1902, was entitled "Drawing The Line In Mississippi."
Seeing this cartoon, Rose Michtom decided to make a jointed, stuffed bear like the bear in the cartoon. She got permission from the President to call him "Teddy's Bear." Thus, Teddy Bears were born.
In the the first gallery are "Century Bears" which shows history through Teddy Bears. Also, celebrities depicted as bears!
Then we move to the Art Gallery, famous pieces of art are re-done as... You guessed it! Teddy Bears!
So grab your Teddy Bear and give it a squeeze cause they come from a long history!
-Sam-
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