Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression

Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
中国人民抗日战争纪念馆

Address: 101 Inner Street of Wanping Fortress, Lugou Bridge, Fengtai district, Beijing
Website:
www.1937china.com (Cn)
Hours: 9:00-16:30 (Last tickets: 16:00)
Closed Mondays (except for national holidays and significant anniversaries of the war)
E-mail: luocunkang@1937china.com
General admission: Free (passport required for entry, a max of 2,000 admitted daily)

The Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is a memorial of revolutionary history.
Located near the Lugou Bridge (Marco Polo Bridge) in the southwestern Fengtai District of Beijing, the museum was opened to the public on July 7, 1987.

The Museum, covering more than 35,000 squares meters, has been reconstructed three times, in 1997, 2005 and 2015. The permanent exhibition focuses on the fight of the Chinese people against Japanese aggression from 1931 to 1945 and their final victory, demonstrating through photographs, historic relics, films, and sculptures the heroism of Chinese people from all walks of life in protecting their country.

In a row of galleries, the exhibition elaborates the following specific themes: Prelude of the War of Chinese People's Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Strategic Defense of the War, Strategic Confrontation, the Chinese War Zone After the Breakout of the Pacific War, and the Final Victory. It systematically demonstrates the Chinese people's gallant fight against Japanese invaders during World War II.

The Hall of the Lugou Qiao Incident was opened on July 7, 1988. It was the first art hall to employ techniques of painting, sculpture, magic lanterns and acoustics to exhibit important historical themes. The hall, with a semicircle screen 16.5 meters high and 50 meters long, plays documentaries of the Lugou Incident.

The Historical Materials Hall of the September 18 Incident displays affidavits of the Japanese war criminals, offering quite a number of inside stories of events before the war broke out.

The exhibition halls of the museum also display some inscriptions from celebrities and some print, cartoons and picture posters of the Anti-Japanese War period.