Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders, History museum in Nanjing, China.
The memorial is a museum complex in Nanjing combining exhibition halls, memorial grounds, and a peace park. Visitors move through different zones to encounter historical materials and spaces for remembrance.
The site was created in response to events that occurred in 1937 and 1938, opening to the public in 1985 decades after those years. The establishment marked an important moment of national recognition and memory.
The name means "Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders"; locally it is also called Jiangdongmen Memorial Hall after the district. Since 2014 a national public memorial ceremony has been held here every 13 December, and the site also hosts exhibitions and research on survivor testimony.
The memorial sits in southwestern Nanjing at Jiangdongmen, a short walk west of Yunjinlu Station on Metro Line 2; the entrance faces Exit 2. Admission is free but requires prior registration, and crowds are heavy at all hours, so book ahead and allow time for the outdoor grounds, the coffin-shaped skeletal remains hall and the half-underground exhibition hall.
The bronze figure in Photograph 1, a standing adult holding a limp child across its hips, is one of the sculptures by Wu Xianlin added in the 1995-1997 second phase. The memorial walkway nearby carries the footprints of massacre survivors, some cast as late as 2002.
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