The Museum of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japan, commonly referred to as the Resistance War Museum, is located in Wanping City, near the Lugou Bridge, where the July 7th Incident, marking the beginning of the full-scale resistance, took place. As a large-scale comprehensive thematic memorial museum that fully reflects the history of the great Chinese people’s resistance against Japanese aggression, the Resistance War Museum serves as a national demonstration base for youth volunteer services, one of the first batch of national red tourism classic scenic spots, one of the first batch of national and Beijing integrity education bases, a national and Beijing defense education base, a national concern for the next generation of party history and national history education base, and a cross-strait exchange base.
Additionally, the museum is the initiator and permanent secretariat of the International World War II Museum Association, the secretariat of the Chinese Anti-Japanese War History Society, the Beijing China Anti-Japanese War Research and Peace Education Foundation, and the director’s secretariat of the Memorial Professional Committee of the Chinese Museum Association.Under the care of the Party, the museum was approved for construction in 1985 and was completed and officially opened to the public in July 1987. Since its establishment, the museum has actively promoted the great spirit of resistance, and its social recognition and global influence have been growing. To date, it has received more than 37 million visitors from home and abroad. Currently, the museum houses nearly 30,000 pieces (sets) of cultural relics, with an annual reception volume exceeding one million people (reaching 1.46 million in 2019). Moreover, the museum has also received politicians from more than ten countries and over 300,000 visitors from more than 80 countries and regions. It has organized resistance-themed exhibitions in the United States, Russia, Japan, Belarus, Poland, and other countries, as well as in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. The International World War II Museum Association, initiated by the museum, has welcomed 49 museums from 15 countries. Through personnel exchanges, exhibition swaps, collection mutual appreciation, academic discussions, and joint commemorations, the museum has increasingly become an important window for people around the world to understand the history of China’s resistance.
The museum is open all year round from Tuesday to Sunday from 09:00 to 16:30; closed all day on Mondays; and open on New Year’s Day, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and National Day from 09:00 to 16:30.
