The Gyeonggi Provincial Museum (Director Lee Jong-sun) is playing a leading role in the project for Virtual Collection of Masterpieces designed to help people the world over appreciate cultural masterpieces in Europe and Asia through real-time computer-based connection. 

The project will start serving the general public in 2007. The Gyeonggi Provincial Museum Director Lee Jong-sun was selected as the representative of the Asian side for the project at the meeting of the ASEMUS (Asia-Europe Museum Network) held in Seoul in October 2005. His European counterpart is Dutch National Museum Director Steven Engelsman. 

The 1,000 images of the masterpieces being displayed at the cyber-based project will be those selected among those owned by the 70-plus member museums of the ASEMUS plus other museums wishing to take part in. 

Participating museums in Asia include the Gyeonggi Provincial Museum, the National Museum of Korea, the Sejong University Museum, the Shanghai Museum of China, the National Museum of Indonesia, and the National Museums of Ethnology of Japan and Vietnam. Their European counterparts include the national museums of ethnology in the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Germany. 

Visitors to the project will be able to look at the displayed items from various angles, may be from more convenient angles than at real museums, and to exchange opinions with others. The Project team composed of Project Manager, editors, information technology consultants and designers is making preparations. 

Lee Jong-sun has participated in the project from the initial planning stage. Having signed the MOU for the project at the meeting held at Chiang Mai, Thailand on January 22~25 as the representative of Asian museums participating in the project, he coordinates opinions solves problems concerning the project. 

A Gyeonggi Provincial Museum official said, “Via the project, we can have the nation’s precious cultural properties better known throughout the world. It is a daring and pioneering project. Just image how nice it will be for a European to inspect Goryeo celadon at home. We will also have such opportunities to appreciate European masterpieces or our precious cultural properties kept at European museums. This way, more people will be more interested in paying first-hand visits to museums.