When you enter the museum, you are provided with a high-tech PDA which acts as a guide. It automatically detects exactly where you are and which display you are looking at, and then it explains the history and details of that work.
LEEUM displays a range of art work from historical paintings and vases to contemporary art work. I think LEEUM should be described as a gallery rather than a museum because it mainly consists of art work such as paintings. I was astonished to see so many great masterpieces on display. For example, there are original paintings by Picasso and contemporary pieces by Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst. I was also impressed with the Rothko paintings and Baek Nam-Jun’s work on display. 

I heard that LEEUM stands for “Lee’s Museum”. Lee refers to Lee Gun-Hee, who is the president of the Samsung Group. Effectively, the art work on display are in his private collection. It is a shame that such valuable and historical art works are owned privately, and not owned by the state. But at the same time, it is great that we have the opportunity to see such masterpieces in Seoul without having to travel abroad.