Fei Hu Dui Bo Wu Guan 飞虎队博物馆
• Free admission
• Located directly across from the Stilwell Museum, this is less of a museum and more of an art gallery. There is one room when you first enter that contains a few displays about the Flying Tigers (the American volunteer group led by Claire Chennault that helped the Chinese during WWII, made famous by flying supplies over the treacherous Himalayas). At some point some of the volunteers from the brigade returned to Chongqing and they all signed a large cloth (banner?) on display in the center of the room. It is all in English, no Chinese, as the small museum is typically only opened for large groups of foreign tourists passing through Chongqing.
Behind this room is the small art gallery filled with paintings, scrolls, and other artwork by artists from around the region. As this is a frequent stop for local tours the artwork is all for sale for exorbitantly high prices. They offer discounts to foreign teachers, so it may be possibly to bargain. The gallery curator speaks excellent English.
Bus Tip: 华村
Light Rail Tip: 佛图关 (Fotuguan) Take the Stilwell Museum exit.
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1 Dan Ford // Jul 24, 2007 at 5:39 pm
I’d like to hear more about the exhibits. Are they all about the U.S. Army pilots, or is there something about the original American Volunteer Group that served in Burma and China until July 1942? I visited Kunming in 1986 as part of my research into the AVG. There weren’t many tourists in China then! Certainly not enough to justify an English-language museum. Blue skies! — Dan Ford (author of Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, to be published in September by HarperCollins)
2 chinkerfly // Jul 24, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Hello Dan, as I mentioned in the post it is a very modest display, it’s probably a stretch to even call it a museum. But it is about the American Volunteer group that you seem to be writing a book about! The exhibits are mostly photographs and brief historical sketches. I believe there is a display about Chennault, but the other pilots do not have their own exhibits.
3 Steve // Jan 4, 2009 at 11:10 am
Any contact info for the Stillwell Museum? Hours?
I would like to buy some gifts, but when I went there it was closed.
4 Chinkerfly // Jan 4, 2009 at 12:16 pm
They seem to close randomly for private tours, you can check across the street at the Stilwell Museum, they often know about changes in the schedule
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