Penang War Museum Brief histrory from
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It was at Bukit Maung, on the southern part of Pulau Pinang that the battle against the invading Japanese army was lost. In the 1930, a formidable fortress was built by the British army atop Bukit Maung, to protect the island against the enemy. Manned by not only British soldiers, but also Malay and Sikh soldiers, Bukit Maung fell during an attack in which the Japanese army approached from inland, rather than from sea, as was expected by the British army.
From that day onwards, the fortress at Bukit Maung transformed into a Japanese army base with a dark history, filled with narrations of how prisoners were tortured for information to help forward the advancement of the Japanese army into Malaya. As a result, Bukit Maung, in the years following the fall of the Japanese army in 1945, the locals in the area kept well away of Bukit Maung for fear of its reputation as a place of hauntings by ghosts of dead soldiers.
The fortress was constructed over 20acres of land, complete with underground military tunnels and ventilation shafts, ammunition bunkers, logistic centre, canon firing bays, sleeping quarters, cook houses and medical infirmary. After several years of restoration and clearing the fortress area that was covered by shrubs and growths after so many years of abandonment, the fortress was turned into the War Museum by a local Penangite, Johari Shafie three decades later.
Today, a slow walk through the fortress will fire the imagination on what once was. From the canon firing bay the Straits of Melaka is clearly visible. Although the original canons are no longer on site, it is not difficult to imagine how British, Malay and Sikh soldiers once took turn manning the canon bays day and night, guarding against enemy attach from sea. A simple, but no less remarkable section of underground tunnels - one even leads all the way to the sea, acting as an access tunnel to get to submarines - forces one to walk, or even crawl through very narrow, confined places.
Yesterday past by this place, so went for a look since so many of them said this place is scary, spooky, go in a 12pm also feel the cold....but now im going at 4.30pm, see how scary is it.
From the entrance by the road side, it's still need to drive up quite a while to reach the base, when I step out from the car, and reach the ticket counter, I got the feeling like "Am I in a right place, shud I go in?" Well, already there, so just pay RM15 and go in to have a look.
At the entrance of the first tunnel, I saw a guy coming out from it...so I was like
now I need to be alone in the tunnel?!
Walk slowly...with the feeling hope still got people inside there. But NO! No one was there, except me! damn!
Inside the tunnel is cold, no aircond, no fan, the ventilation is by the air duct and air tunnel built by the British when they built this place. Got a lot of thing to see in the tunnel, but I just cant concentrate, take a brief look and get out from there ASAP!
Then come to here
Take a walk and reach the top, I see this
Cannon firing bay, where a super huge cannon placed, but now the cannon is gone...
Destroy by bomb, and some bullet hole...
Another cannon firing bay
The canon used to aim at the Melaka straight, to protect the island from enemy attack from the sea.
A lot of wall with this kind of condition, destroy by bullet or bomb
Saw this hanging at the Open Theater
And come to the torture chamber which is also before that used as generation room by British to power up the whole base.
This post has been edited by LanEvoX: Jan 14 2007, 05:00 PM 
Dec 17 2006, 12:56 AM, updated 19y ago
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the old bike shot is pretty nice too 
i haven't try it though.. hahaha you might wanna try.. 
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