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Taihang Memorial Museum of the Eighth Route Army 八路军太行纪念馆Bālùjūn Tàiháng Jìniànguǎn

4A scenic area · Changzhi, Shanxi

Taihang Memorial Museum of the Eighth Route Army (八路军太行纪念馆)
Photo: 1969社论, CC BY-SA 4.0
Time needed
2–3 hours
Days to budget
Half a day
City
Changzhi
Region
Shanxi
Type
Heritage
Listed as
4A scenic area

About Taihang Memorial Museum of the Eighth Route Army

A national first-class museum on the Eighth Route Army's war of resistance against Japan, opened in 1988 at the foot of Phoenix Hill in Wuxiang and enlarged in 2005. The main exhibition runs for 1,450 m and shows more than 1,000 items and over 600 photographs and charts; the grounds also hold a panorama hall on the Hundred Regiments Offensive, a stele park and a 19.37 m monument on the hilltop. It suits visitors interested in the wartime Taihang base area, and it adjoins the Eighth Route Army Cultural Park.

How to get to Taihang Memorial Museum of the Eighth Route Army

It stands in Wuxiang town, next to the Eighth Route Army Cultural Park and about 2.5 km from the Wuxiang exit of the Taiyuan–Changzhi expressway.

Nearby

Also within 20 km: Eighth Route Army Cultural Park 八路军文化园 (under 10 km), Nannieshui Stone Carving Museum 南涅水石刻博物馆 (20 km), Hongjiao Temple, Nannieshui 南涅水洪教院 (20 km), Huixian Daoist Temple 会仙观 (20 km).

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