Museums In Mongolia
This is a list of museums in Mongolia. Baruun-Urt * General Museum of Sukhbaatar Province Bayankhongor * Historical-ethnographical and Natural History Museum of Bayankhongor province Choibalsan * Museum of Dornod Province Khovd * Khovd Province museum Kharkhorin * Kharakhorum museum * Khushuu Tsaidam Museum Öndörkhaan * Setsenkhaan Palace and Khentii Province museum Sainshand * Danzanravjaa Museum * Sainshand Natural History Museum Sükhbaatar * General Museum of Selenge Province Tsetserleg * Arkhangai province museum Ulaanbaatar * Central Museum of Dinosaurs of Mongolia * Choijin Lama Temple Museum * Hunting and Game Museum * International Intellectual Museum * Marshal Jukov House Museum * Memorial Museum for Victims of Political Repression * Mongol Costumes Museum * Mongolian Theatre Museum * Museum of Traditional Medicine * Mongolian Natural History Museum * Mongolian Military Museum Mongolia Museum of Art* Mongolian National M ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. The largest museums are located in major cities throughout the world, while thousands of local museums exist in smaller cities, towns, and rural areas. Museums have varying aims, ranging from the conservation and documentation of their collection, serving researchers and specialists, to catering to the general public. The goal of serving researchers is not only scientific, but intended to serve the general public. There are many types of museums, including art museums, natural history museums, science museums, war museums, and children's museums. According to the International Council of Museums (ICOM), there are more than 55,000 museums in 202 countrie ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sükhbaatar (city)
Sükhbaatar ( mn, Сүхбаатар, , russian: Сухэ-Батор) is the capital of Selenge Province in northern Mongolia, on the Orkhon river. As of late 2007, the city population is 19,224.Official site of the Selenge aimag (version 2008) History ![]() Transport Sükhbaatar is the northernmost[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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National Museum Of Mongolia
The National Museum of Mongolia ( mn, 1=Монголын үндэсний түүхийн музей); formerly the National Museum of Mongolian History is located in Ulaanbaatar. It characterizes itself as "a cultural, scientific, and educational organization, which is responsible for the collection, care and interpretation of the objects." History The first museum in Mongolia, the Mongolian National Museum (now the Mongolian Natural History Museum), was established in 1924. Russian scholars, such as Pyotr Kozlov, V. I. Lisovskii, A. D. Simukov, and the American researcher Roy Chapman Andrews contributed to the museum's early collections and exhibits. Exhibitions cover prehistory, pre-Mongol Empire history, Mongol Empire, Mongolia during Qing rule, ethnography and traditional life, and twentieth-century history. The ethnographic collection has significant displays of the traditional dress of various Mongolian ethnic groups and of snuff bottles. Most exhibits have labels in both ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery
Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery () is a government-supported art gallery in Ulaanbaatar Ulaanbaatar (; mn, Улаанбаатар, , "Red Hero"), previously anglicized as Ulan Bator, is the capital and most populous city of Mongolia. It is the coldest capital city in the world, on average. The municipality is located in north ce .... It exhibits Mongolian modern art. There are about 4200 pieces in the museum's permanent collection, with only 7-8% being on display. The museum is constantly collecting new pieces. In addition, the museum also organizes temporary exhibitions and also shows them aboard. History The gallery separated from the Fine Arts Museum of Mongolia in 1991. In 2020, 17 paintings were transferred here from the Winter Palace of the Bogd Khan, where they had been kept since 1986. Prior to 1986, the 17 works were located at the Fine Arts Zanabazar Museum. References Museums in Mongolia Buildings and structures in Ulaanbaatar Museums establishe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mongolian Military Museum
The Mongolian Military Museum ( mn, Монголын цэргийн музей) also known as the Museum of the Mongolian Armed Forces, is located in northern Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It explains Mongolian military history dating back to the Mongol Empire. It is currently located across from an army barracks. The museum is part of the Ministry of Defense. History The concept of an all-Mongolian museum of military history was initially proposed by Minister of Military Affairs Marshal Gelegdorjiin Demid (1932-1937), but the museum was not established until years later. On 21 January 1966, The Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party's Central Committee held a meeting to establish The Mongolian Army Museum. The relevant document on its establishment (decree №2) is itself situated in the modern museum. After over 20 years of research, the museum's groundbreaking ceremony took place on 24 October 1987 in the presence of General Secretary Jambyn Batmönkh, Defence Minister Jamsrangijn ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mongolian Natural History Museum
The Mongolian Natural History Museum ( mn, Байгалийн түүхийн музей) is a repository and research institution located in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The museum was previously known as the Mongolian National Museum or State Central Museum. The museum includes Departments of Geology, Geography, Flora and Fauna, Paleontology, and Anthropology encompassing the natural history of Mongolia. The museum's holdings include more than 6000 specimens, 45% of which were on permanent public display. The museum is particularly well known for its dinosaur and other paleontological exhibits, among which the most notable are a nearly complete skeleton of a late Cretaceous ''Tarbosaurus'' tyrannosaurid and broadly contemporaneous nests of ''Protoceratops'' eggs. The old museum building was demolished in 2019 and the museum moved to the site of the Central Museum of Dinosaurs of Mongolia, with which it had been merged. History The Museum was established in 1924 as the ''National Mu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mongolian Theatre Museum
Mongolian Theatre Museum was founded in 1991 to preserve and present the traditions and artifacts of the performing arts in Mongolia and to do research in this area.According to the museum's English-language flyer, the mission of the museum is "To preserve a cultural heritage connected operforming art's and make a significant contribution to the public knowledge on art." The museum is located in the Central Cultural Palace Building, on Amar Street, just off Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar. On display are paintings of leading actors, playbills, photographs, models, costumes etc. from the state central theatre. Included are artifacts and photographs pertaining to dance, circus, opera, music and puppet theatre as well as traditional theatre. In addition, camera equipment, costuming and a few props as well as stills are presented in a separate hall about Mongolian movies. The collection has 9,000 objects. The museum has programs that include publishing, interviews with leading p ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Memorial Museum For Victims Of Political Repression
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International Intellectual Museum
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Choijin Lama Temple Museum
The Choijin Lama Temple ( mn, Чойжин ламын сүм; Official name given by Manchu Qing Emperor Guangxu (1871 – 1908): mn, Өршөөлийг хөгжүүлэгч сүм, ; mnc, ''Gosimbin Jadenblh juktenen'', , English; Compassion Perfection Temple, Chinese:興仁寺) is a Buddhist monastery in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. The complex consists of six temples originally occupied by the brother of the ruler the Eighth Bogd Jetsun Dampa Khan, Choijin Lama Luvsankhaidav, who was the state oracle and 'Precious Wisdom and Clear Devotion' Khutugtu at the time. The complex was begun in 1904 and completed in 1908, in honor of the State Oracle Lama Lubsanhaidub /Losang Kedrup/, brother of the eighth Bogd Khan. The Choijin Lama Museum was originally a Buddhist temple complex, consisting of one main and five branch temples. It was active until 1937, when it was closed during the height of Communist repression against Buddhism and other religious traditions. In 1938 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Central Museum Of Dinosaurs Of Mongolia
Central Museum of Dinosaurs of Mongolia was a paleontological museum in Chingeltei District, Ulaanbaatar. It was dedicated to the preservation and discovery of dinosaur fossils. The museum was finished in 1974. In August 2019 the Dinosaur Museum was merged into the Natural History Museum A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, climatology, and more. ..., which now occupies the Dinosaur Museum's former premises. The old Natural History Museum building was demolished in 2019 and a new Chinggis Khaan Museum built in its place. References Museums in Mongolia Paleontology in Mongolia Museums established in 1974 Buildings and structures in Ulaanbaatar Fossil museums Dinosaur museums {{Asia-museum-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ulaanbaatar
Ulaanbaatar (; mn, Улаанбаатар, , "Red Hero"), previously anglicized as Ulan Bator, is the capital and most populous city of Mongolia. It is the coldest capital city in the world, on average. The municipality is located in north central Mongolia at an elevation of about in a valley on the Tuul River. The city was originally founded in 1639 as a nomadic Buddhist monastic center, changing location 28 times, and was permanently settled at its current location in 1778. During its early years, as Örgöö (anglicized as Urga), it became Mongolia's preeminent religious center and seat of the Jebtsundamba Khutuktu, the spiritual head of the Gelug lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia. Following the regulation of Qing-Russian trade by the Treaty of Kyakhta in 1727, a caravan route between Beijing and Kyakhta opened up, along which the city was eventually settled. With the collapse of the Qing Empire in 1911, the city was a focal point for independence efforts, leading ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |