The Guningtou Battle Museum () is located in the Kuningtou area of the

Kinmen National Park The Kinmen National Park () is a national park in Kinmen, Fuchien Province, Republic of China (Taiwan). History The park was established in 1995, three years after martial law was lifted in the county. Geology The park covers an area of 35.3&n ...

Jinning Township Jinning District () is one of seven districts of the prefecture-level city of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, Southwest China. The formation of the district was approved on November 24, 2016, after the dissolution of the former ''Jinni ...

Kinmen County Kinmen, alternatively known as Quemoy, is a group of islands governed as a county by the Republic of China (Taiwan), only east from the city of Xiamen in Fujian, located at the southeastern coast of the People's Republic of China, from which ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

History

The museum was built in 1984 by local military and civilian population to commemorate the

Battle of Guningtou The Battle of Kinmen ( zh, t=金門戰役), also known as the Battle of Kuningtou ( zh, t=古寧頭之役) or the Battle of Guningtou, was fought in October 1949 on the island of Kinmen (Quemoy), located in the Taiwan Strait, during the final ...

(started in 1949 and continued throughout the 1950s) between

National Revolutionary Army The National Revolutionary Army (NRA; zh, labels=no, t=國民革命軍) served as the military arm of the Kuomintang, Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, or KMT) from 1924 until 1947. From 1928, it functioned as the regular army, de facto ...

and

People's Liberation Army The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China (PRC). It consists of four Military branch, services—People's Liberation Army Ground Force, Ground Force, People's ...

Exhibition

On the outside of museum, three bronze statues of soldiers ready for battle are displayed. On both sides are the M5A1 tanks used during the battle. Inside of the museum are the exhibition of military equipment, military weapons, battle-related documents, photos and paintings.

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Kinmen's Guningtou area attractions commemorate important battle中華民國博物館學會 - 古寧頭戰史館
1984 establishments in Taiwan Jinning Township Military and war museums in Taiwan Military of the Republic of China Museums in Kinmen County {{Taiwan-museum-stub

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