Upon the completion of the reconstruction project, Lushun Museum in Dalian, a port city in northeast China's Liaoning Province, has become China's largest garden museum in terms of its floor space.

After the rebuilding efforts, the museum, founded in 1917,was expanded from the original floor area of 25,000square meters to some 150,000square meters at present, adding a local arboretum and a zoo to its construction scope.

Major exhibits in the Lushun Museum are objects, pictures and other mementos of the war that Lushun had undergone in history. Now the museum looks more like a garden with the newly accession of the arboretum and zoo.

Lushun District, located at the southern tip of Liaodong Peninsula, and also the point where the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea meet, was one of the world's five largest naval ports and has witnessed repeated wars in history.

It was opened partially to the public in July 1996,after 40years of being closed for military reasons and it has become a famous tourist attraction now.

Numerous tourism sites in Dalian include the mass grave where over 20,000Lushun people massacred by the Japanese invaders in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95are buried and ruins of prisons built by the Japanese and Russian armies.

(Eastday.com.cn 06/13/2001)