Issues: Museums and Memorials
The History Museum of
Japanese Military Comfort Women
The History Museum of Japanese Military Comfort Women is a part of the House of Sharing, the home for the living comfort women who were forced into servitude during WWII. It is located in Kwangju-city, Kyonggi-province.
As the world's first museum with sex slavery as the main subject, the History Museum was opened to the public on August 14, 1998. The main objective for the History Museum is to depict comfort women's lives and experiences and educate the next generation with an accurate history of what happened to the comfort women in Asia during the war.
The History Museum consists of
five exhibition rooms as well as a research library.
Exhibit 1: Testimonial Room-Documentary films and testimonials of the Japanese
military's comfort women are presented.
Exhibit 2: Experience Room-Shows the reproduction of a comfort station with relics of former comfort women placed with it.
Exhibit 3: Record Room-As the name of the room suggests, it displays the records of documents, pictures, and films to prove that such acts did occur and how these records were found.
Exhibit 4: Indictment Room-Displays artwork done by comfort women and other artists.
Exhibit 5: Cherish Room-An open space that symbolizes peace and human rights with a monument in the center.
