The Korea Heritage Service’s National Palace Museum of Korea will lend a folding screen from the royal court of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) to a special exhibition opening Wednesday at the Guimet Museum in Paris, the museum said. The screen, known in Korean as a “chaekgado byeongpung,” will appear in “Trompe-l’oeil Knowledge, Korea (18th-20th Century)” exhibition, running through Jan. 4, 2027, at the Guimet Museum, a French national museum devoted to Asian art. The show is part of the Guimet’s yearlong Une annee K-arrement Coree! program marking 2026 as its Year of Korea. Chaekgado, meaning bookshelf painting, is a genre that emerged in the late 18th century under King Jeongjo, blending Western-style perspective techniques with Joseon painting traditions to depict bookshelves stacked with volumes and scholarly objects. The genre reflected the Joseon royal court’s reverence for learning. The National Palace Museum’s screen will appear in the exhibition’s first of four sections, which explores 18th-century Joseon’s culture of knowledge and how Jeongjo, in 1791, installed a chaekgado s
