The Museum of the Sino-Japanese War, the national level museum, grew out of the Cultural Relics Management Institute of the Praefect Department of the Northern Navy of Weihai founded in 1985. It is the management and protection institution of the National Priority Cultural Relic Protection Site----the Memorial Site of the Sino-Japanese War of Liugong Island and it is responsible for the management and protection of 28 sites of the Northern Navy and Sino-Japanese War on northern and southern sides of Weihai Bay and Liugong Island. The museum is situated among the Praefect Department of the Northern Navy and its affiliated buildings on the Liugong Island. In 1992, it was renamed the “Museum of the Sino-Japanese War” with the approval of the State Administration of Cultural Relics. In July 1994, Jiang Zemin, the former General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, inscribed the name for it. On September 11, 2009, it was renamed the “Museum of the Sino-Japanese War” by the Commission for Public Sector Reform of Weihai City, after the discussion of the Weihai Municipal Committee.