Museum "9"18 incident

The 9.18 Incident Museum is dedicated to September 18, 1931. This day will never be forgotten by the Chinese people, as it was the beginning of the war against the Japanese invaders.

On September 18, 1931, a small amount of dynamite was detonated near a railway station that belonged to Japan. The explosion was very weak and the train passed without problems a few minutes later, however, the Japanese blamed the Chinese dissidents for the act and responded with an invasion that led to the occupation of Manchuria, in which Japan established its puppet state within six months. The explosion was just a clever excuse to launch an attack.

The 9.18 Incident Museum is located at the site of the explosion. It is a large and beautiful building designed to look like an open book. Many exhibits feature hundreds of photographs and documents from the year of the invasion to the 1950s war crimes. Other exhibits include samples of Chinese and Japanese firearms, human skeletons found in Shenyang, Japanese torture devices, wax figurines and more. Entrance to the museum is free.