The National Museum of Korea has set up its Mesopotamian Gallery and presents the exhibition "Mesopotamia: Great Cultural Innovations, Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art." As the first long-term exhibition in Korea to showcase Mesopotamian cultural heritage, the event has been co-organized with the Metropolitan Museum of Art of the U.S. 

The exhibition comprises three sections. The first is "Cultural Innovation," which deals with the birth of cities. The second, "Art and Identity," presents works expressing individual identity. And the third, "The Age of Empires," presents art from the two major Mesopotamian empires, the Neo-Assyrian (911–612 B.C.) and Neo-Babylonian (626–539 B.C.).