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5-minute tour guide opium war museum

opium war museum is a specialized museum of ancient sites in China. Located in the former site of Lin Zexu's cigarette-selling pool in the south of Koucun Village, Humen Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, it is adjacent to Niubei Mountain in the east and the Pearl River Estuary in the west. Established in 1985.

opium war museum consists of the main building, Shajiao Battery Management Office and Weiyuan Battery Management Office, with a total area of more than 211,111 square meters.

The former sites of Humen Fort managed by opium war museum ── Shajiao Fort, Weiyuan Fort, Jingyuan Fort, Zhenyuan Fort, Nanshan Fort, Shetouwan Fort, Jiuzai Fort, and the village wall of Guangdong Navy Governor's Office are important war relics and are national key cultural relics protection units.

among the cultural relics in the museum are a number of cannons, guns, powder tanks, powder pits, broadswords and spears used during the anti-British war, and foreign guns and guns captured by the British army in that year. Several "credit cannons" had beaten the British invaders in the Opium War that year.

The museum's basic display is "the display of historical facts of the Opium War", which includes the Opium War launched by Britain, the anti-British struggle of soldiers and civilians in Guangdong, the anti-British struggle of soldiers and civilians in coastal provinces, the ending of the Opium War, the unstoppable anti-aggression fire and so on. The museum also cooperates with exhibitions by showing videos and other forms to carry out patriotic education to the audience.