Anshan Martyrs Memorial Hall

Anshan Martyrs Memorial Hall

The Anshan Martyrs Memorial Hall serves as a base for patriotic education and national defense education.

The Anshan Martyrs Memorial Hall is situated in Martyrs Hill Park in the city center of Anshan. It was first built in 1952 as a castle-style antique building. The memorial museum had its name inscribed by Peng Zhen, former Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. In 1985, the Anshan Municipal Government and Anshan Iron and Steel Company jointly invested to relocate and expand the memorial hall, moving it from its original location west of the main gate of Martyrs Hill to its current site. In 1998, the Anshan Municipal Government further invested in renovating and expanding the memorial hall, increasing its floor space from 1,080 square meters to 4,000 square meters. The exhibition content was enriched, display forms were updated, and a multifunctional cinema as well as six temporary exhibition halls were added. In addition to the permanent exhibitions open to the public daily, the hall also regularly hosts or co-hosts educational exhibitions with significant moral impact.

Over the past 50-plus years since its establishment, the memorial hall has evolved from a small exhibit room with only two display rooms and dozens of photos into a large-scale modern exhibition venue featuring nine exhibition halls, nearly a thousand cultural relics, and images. The hall houses historical materials, photographs, and personal effects of over 3,500 martyrs who sacrificed gloriously for China’s liberation. By using various methods such as sound, light, and electricity, along with formats including dioramas, sculptures, sand tables, and models, it vividly showcases the martyrs’ fearless sacrifice, bloody battles, and indomitable revolutionary spirit. Statistics show that the number of visitors to the hall were: over 1.5 million between 1952 and 1965; over 1.6 million between 1965 and 1983; over 2.1 million between 1984 and 1993; and over 800,000 from 1994 to the present.

Starting in 1992, the memorial hall has successively hosted exhibitions such as the "Large-Scale Cultural Relics and Photo Exhibition Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Mao Zedong’s Birth," "Exhibition of Historical Evidence of Crimes Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Invaders in China," "Soul of Hongyan," "Xi’an Incident," "Exhibition of Historical Evidence of Crimes by Japanese Invaders in China," "National Flag Exhibition," "Exhibition of Images Opposing <> and Advocating Civilization," "Large-Scale Image Exhibition Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China," and "Exhibition of Cultural Relics and Photos Marking the Beginning of the Anti-Japanese War Here." These exhibitions have been open free of charge to elementary, middle, and high school students, fully leveraging the roles of patriotic and national defense education bases.

The memorial hall was named a “Patriotic Education Base” by the Ministry of Civil Affairs in 1995; a “Patriotic Education Base” by the Anshan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government in 1996; a “Moral Education Demonstration Base for Primary and Secondary School Students” by the Anshan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government in 1998; a “Liaoning Provincial Patriotic Education Demonstration Base” by the Publicity Department of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee and other departments in 2001; awarded the title of “Civilized Unit” by the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government in 2005; and recognized as a “Little Citizens’ Patriotic Moral Education Demonstration Base” by the Provincial Women’s Federation in 2006. In December 1998, it was designated as a “Liaoning Provincial National Defense Education Base” by the Provincial National Defense Education Committee, and in April 2007, it was re-designated as a “Liaoning Provincial National Defense Education Base” by the Provincial Government.