The hall functions as a library, as archives, an exhibition center, a theater, and a research facility. The first display room features materials depicting the struggle to overcome national crises and ordeals of the past. The second display room exhibits materials concerned with the modern cultural movement and the Tonghak Movement as well as the Korean campaigns against foreign invaders prior to Japan's annexation of Korea in 1910. Exhibited in the fourth display room are more materials on the Independence Movement. The fifth display room has a large movie screen that encircles the viewers.
Films depict various campaigns waged by Korean independence fighters and militia.
In the sixth display room are materials related to the activities of the Korean Independence Army and the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea established in Shanghai, China in the wake of the March First Independence Movement.