lncheon is very lack in cultural infrastructure; especially there are very few museums and art galleries . The shortage rate of museum in terms of the population is 79. 1 % that is surprising to see, and this problem was pointed out quite often by Ministry of Culture and Tourism as well as the studies conducted by lncheon itself. However, lncheon is now in a process of museum constru c tion expand the c ultural enjoyment area and to develop the superior native tourism resources. When this plan is completed, the citizens of lncheon will be able to enjoy museums with various themes such as Incheon Museum of Modern Living History, Jajiangmyun Museum, Literature Museum, and Immigration His tory Museum in Joong-gu, Daldongne Museum in Dong-gu, Toy Museum in Seo-gu, Children’ s Museum of Global Culture in Nam-gu, Bupyung History Museum in Bupyung-gu, and Ganghwa History Museum in Ganghwa-gun. From this point of view, this study suggested questions on whether these 9 theme museums were taking a proper, reasonable promoting process correspond to th e purpose of the construction. Considering these questions as a starting point, the management situation of the museums and art galleries in lncheon were analyzed and the construction situat?ons of the 9 theme museums were investigated and understood the problems. Based on these facts, this study suggested applicable strategies for the museums and art galleries to be built in Incheon area later on. The followings are summarized results. First of all, the biggest problem that the currently operating museums and art galleries have is that they are located far from people making it hard to visit one and they don’t have enough specialists making exhibitions and management unprofessional and they don’t have educational support for the citizens since they have very few educational programs. These various problems result in a small number of visitors during the year. There were only 161,9 14 people visited the museums and art galleries in Incheon in a year. This figure is a third of the number of Busan, and still is a smaller number compared to Daegu that has the same number of cultural infrastructure. In other words, trus shows that the museums and art galleries in Incheon are barely contribute to the citizens’ cultural life. Then, how are the museums that are now in a process of construction planning? Examination of the construction promotion situation of the 9 theme museums proved that the sites for construction were selected without any accurate analysis, there were not enough specialists, and there were no specific plans for the future operation or activities. It is obvious that trus could be a repetitive rnass-production of museurns that are turned away from the citizens. Therefore, this study searched for the strategies that the construction and management of the museums and art galleries should be promoted to be able to solve the problems rnentioned above and to take a positive role in cultural life of the Incheon citizens. The strategies can be divided into 3 categories . First one is a prograrnrning strategy. The museums and art galleries should specialize frorn the inside by careful site selection and artistic architectural style, space formation considering operational function, specialization based on the collections, strengthening the exhibition planning, operating various educational programs, and networking between the infrastructure. Second one is political and financial resource strategy. There should be an improvement of policies, law, and systems and a rational operation/creation of financial resources in detail to activate the and art galIeries. Third one is an active operation strategy. The museums and art galleries should have a proper specialized organization structure as well as various marketing strategies. Through these diversified strategies. the museums and art galleries in lncheon will be able to obtain a native life style and a cultural identity of the region and satisfy the cultural needs of the citizens establishing the cultural foundation of the society.