6/5/2008 Tuesday, War Museum

21st June 2008 Saturday 2.00pm Posted By : Yew

Introduction

War MuseumThe Penang War Museum vividly depicts the saga of tragedy and distress that engulfed Malaysia during the Second World War. Penang along with the rest of Malaysia faced the torment of losing countless lives, tearing families apart, scarcity of food and the turmoil that ravaged the entire nation.Penang War Museum recapitulates the war time stories for its visitors but all with a definite purpose. Penang War Museum was established with the very aim of supporting the study and tracing the history of modern war and making a sincere effort to evaluate and analyze the effect of war on human life and on the progress of a nation.

Features of Penang War Museum

- Founder : Johari Shafie during an adventurous and brave hike.

- Penang War Museum is located at the fort in Bukit Maung and this fort was constructed in 1930 to protect the island of Penang from the enemy.

- The fort provides an excellent ambience for the War Museum and to enhance the realistic ambience the museum authority is planning to arrange war games where opponent teams will be equipped with paint gun to shoot paint balls at their enemies while aiming to steal their flags.

- The Penang War Museum is planning to host exhibitions and information on naval warfare in the near future.

- Photography is strictly prohibited at the Penang War Museum and it is open on all days of the week from 9 am to 7 pm.

- Penang War Museum is located at Mukim 12, Batu Maung, Daerah Barat Daya, 11960 Pulau Pinang and the admission charges for adults are RM15 and RM7.50 for kids.

Here we go . . .

Our group's named "newbie"made a visit to our Penang historical place --> WAR MUSEUM.

Why we visit there? It is because we need to get information from there for our presentation. We need to visit to a historical place and experience da environment there and write some report. Oh god... got any related between this and accounting?? ~.~ Anyway, We did enjoy this trip and learned something from it.

We reached there early in the morning around 9am. It was a Sunny day. Luckily it was not too hot. Once we reached there, we go to the information counter to get 3 tickets to go in. The ticket costs us RM 15 each person. Although it was a bit expensive but worth it. Let photos do da talking..

The entrance

" I Hate War !! "

Aisheh . . so strong hur.. It was an anti air force gun.

Gun firing Bay

Ammunition Storage

Officer's Office next to da gun firing bay

Small museum inside a tunnel

A rifle with knife? Used by Japanese last time?

Mortar Shell

(World War II Artifacts belongs to Japanese Imperial Army)

An escape route from da tunnel. . whos inside there? >.>

Another anti air-force gun

At da top of da building at PaintBall area.
P/S : 4got to take da photo of da paintball area. LOL

Most Scary Part . . A place where people head get chopped off. o.O

To our glorious dead . .

A Life For Every Sleeper . .

LOL ... Their posing is sooo special hur..

" MERDEKA !!~~ "

Torture Room

Bicycle used by Japanese Soldier during WWII

Kris - A Place where da malay soldier met

Tools used by British Soldier

GHOST????!!!!!

Here is da answer.. it is just a mannequin.. LOL

Ppl sure get shock when see this for 1st time.

Officer argue-ing? Back to History..

OUCH !!!~~

Kitchen ! And we found a box . .

Guinness !!! Swt . .

Hungry? There is a restaurant . But i never try da food. haha

Finally, we ended our trip at around 11am. It was a bit rush because we still have to go home. We have to attend a lesson before 1pm. Actually there are still a lots of interesting things but we could not visit all because we are running out of time. We encourage you to come here and experience the environment there by yourself. It is really fun.

P/S : actually still got alots of photos.. but i lazy upload... so just pick da best . xD