The Jihad Museum documents Afghanistan's resistance to the Soviet occupation of 1979–1989 from a decidedly partisan perspective — the museum celebrates the mujahideen victory and the foreign fighters who came to Afghanistan during the war. The exhibits include captured Soviet weaponry, photographs, propaganda materials from both sides, and dioramas of battle scenes.
The museum is historically significant not for even-handedness but for what it reveals about how the war is remembered locally. It opened in the early 2000s, when international visitors were still possible, and attracted attention for its unfiltered celebration of the jihad against the Soviets. Worth visiting as a document of local historical memory, with critical distance.