Guningtou War Museum

In 1949, Chinese communist forces launched a night attack on Kinmen and fought a pitched battle with R.O.C. troops for 56 hours before finally being repulsed. More than nine hundred Communist soldiers were taken captive, and the island accordingly fell in the hands of the Kuomintang (Nationalists). Henceforth, the current status quo relationship across the Taiwan Strait began.

The area where the battle was fought is now known as "Guningtou Battlefield". To commemorate the bloody battles that once happened here, the local military and civilian population set up the "Guningtou Battle Museum" in 1984, housing exhibits of historical materials, equipment and weaponry from the battle. As the battle didn’t last long, there are not many archival records left to provide a historical snapshot of this significant event. Instead, twelve large-scale oil paintings are displayed in the museum to illustrate the whole battle in vivid details.

Outside the museum, a bronze statue of a soldier is erected and serves as a stark reminder of the fierce battle. However, rumor has it that originally, it was another statue displayed in the same spot, and that the early years of the museum were abound in supernatural events. The management decided to replace the statue with a new one, and the supernatural events seemed to quiet down from then on.