While urban accessibility of museums plays a crucial role in the growth of a cultural city, in reality, an uneven distribution of museums exists in cities. In particular, museums are concentrated in certain regions or located in a place that is different from the cognitive experience of local residents. To solve this issue, this study quantified the urban space of Seoul, which has entered into the status of a cultural city since the 1990s, as its target city by using space syntax. Further, a suitability analysis was conducted by extracting the museums’ topological accessibility in the city structure as well as the accessibility by the travel angle and limit distance setting. The results showed that the physical locations of museums considering the minimum walking distance set in this study were somewhat separated or isolated from primary spaces where people travel. This indicates that determining museum locations by referring to the major travel routes throughout the city is a significant basis for securing physical accessibility. This study is meaningful as it establishes reference materials for determining museum locations in Seoul and will help form physical clusters of museums adjacent to each other.

Currently museums in Korea are experiencing various kinds of trial and error, as there have not been systematic plans to build museums. Among them, unexpected flow of human traffic produces negative side effects such as 'viewing abandonment' rather than behavior optimization through well-planned physical environments of museums because of high visitor density on weekends. However, the current status of not mentioning the causal relationship between the problematic phenomena and exhibiting methods is not identified.Accordingly, this study tried to understand the correlation of viewing behaviors on weekdays or weekends with the exhibiting method from the perspective of visitor density. For the purpose of this study, the authors tried to identify the correlation of viewing behaviors on weekdays or weekends with the exhibiting method from the perspective of quantitative measurement elements. According to the analysis results, viewing behaviors in museums with wall display system were affected by spatial structure, while those with wall and island display system were heavily affected by visitor density.Through this study, it may be possible to provide indexes for museums proposing optimized viewing behaviors for social education.