Description

The Al-Qurain Martyrs Museum honors the tragedy that occurred on February 24, 1991, between Iraqi troops and Kuwaiti freedom fighters from the Al-Massilah group. After the liberation, Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the then Amir, proclaimed the Al-Qurain home a museum in remembrance of the twelve soldiers slain out of nineteen in the grueling 10-hour struggle and as a symbol of Kuwaiti resistance.

The Al-Qurain Martyrs Museum is a structure riddled with bullet holes and gaps left by cannon fire. The Iraqi tank that was flung off by Iraqi troops stands across the street in front of the building. A truck that transported the resistance group from Kuwait City to Al-Qurain, two Chevrolets belonging to the house owner and the group leader (both of whom were martyrs), a white Chevrolet belonging to Iraqi intelligence, and a minibus used by Iraqi forces to transport prisoners from Iraq to Kuwait can also be found on the premises. Plaques list the heroes and point to the locations where they were killed, captured, or concealed within the war-torn relic. Weapons and cannon rounds were handled on a dreadful day, and memoranda were disseminated around Iraqi soldiers ordering them to destroy all kinds of items that represented the State of Kuwait, as well as to obliterate any probable demonstrations and houses with weapons, and so on.