Naval Museum

For foreign visitors, just bring your passport to the front entrance's Information Office - they will gladly do the registration for you - the entrance is free. Inside there's 6 exhibition halls - 4 of which are PLA Navy, 1 for Ancient to Republican Era, and another for Sea Exploration in general. The outside exhibition are planes, coastal batteries, and the actual warships which you can freely visit all of them, the only exception are the submarines which requires additional bookings via WeChat (this step needs Chinese SIM card, which I don't have sadly) A recommended attraction if you're interested in military history in general.

If you're a foreigner, you can go straight to the ticket counter to get your free tickets. Just need to show your passport. We had trouble with the registration so they helped us. Unfortunately can't go into the subs. You can go on board all decommissioned ships. Go before 4 or earlier.

For me it’s the best attraction in Qingdao, the museum is free (need make reservation by WeChat and one people of the group need have a Chinese sim card, because it’s required to get the SMS code), I did my reservation two days before the visit, there is no charge, the queue to visit was very big because of the security check, the museum don’t is accessible to impaired people, there is many stairs to access the main attractions like the boats and the submarines. I spent three and half hours here. And I think that will be more exhibitions because when I visited in the basement was parked an air fighter (maybe a SU-32) and an Helicopter (looks like some modern Russian model), both were covered by tarpaulin.

they call it a Naval/Military Museum but unfortunately it's just a graveyard for old hardware (ships, submarine and planes) could be so much better if it was actually maintained - the history will just rust away; eventually

It was quite an interesting place to visit. Its especially cool when anybody can climb onto some of the tanks there. Also, the submarine tour was awesome. Its sad to see trash in the engine inlet of the mig15, and 21s, but overall it was wrll worth it.

I liked it. Obviously China🇨🇳 will not show its newest naval technology, but you can see the past of a future sea power. In particular I would recommend to visit the submarine.

A good place to visit in Qingdao

Quite interesting and cool place