Guningtou Battle Museum
古寧頭戰史館
A memorial museum for the 1949 Battle of Guningtou, its castle-style building using large paintings to recreate the battle.
The Guningtou Battle Museum is in Guningtou, Jinning Township. Completed in 1984 with a castle-style exterior, it uses more than a dozen large oil paintings, artifacts and films to present the Battle of Guningtou in October 1949. In front of the museum stands an M5A1 "Bear of Kinmen" tank that took part in the battle. The nearby Beishan old Western-style houses, the Beishan cliffs and the Lin family house in Nanshan are also battle sites and can be visited on foot. Admission is free, and it is open roughly 08:30 to 17:00. It is about 20 minutes' drive from Jincheng.
Opening hours
08:30–17:00
Nearby sights
- Beishan Western-style House
- Cihu Lake & Cihu Dike
- Maestro Wu Steel Knife
- Kinmen Bridge
- Qing Kinmen Garrison Headquarters
- Mofan Street
- Qiu Lianggong's Mother Chastity Arch
- Kinmen Kaoliang Liquor Distillery