Hong Kong Museum of the War of Resistance and Coastal Defence

A military and coastal-defence museum housed inside the rebuilt Lei Yue Mun Fort above the Lei Yue Mun channel at the eastern tip of Hong Kong Island. The British built the fort in 1887 to guard the eastern approach to Victoria Harbour against Russian and French fleets; in December 1941 it fell to the Japanese army after fierce resistance. The museum, opened in 2000, occupies the original gun emplacements, magazines and Victorian redoubt, and traces 600 years of coastal defence in the region - from the Ming dynasty through the Opium War to the 1941 Battle of Hong Kong. After renovation it reopened in 2024 as the Museum of the War of Resistance and Coastal Defence, with a sharpened focus on resistance to the Japanese occupation. A walk through trenches with harbour views finishes the visit.