The Mongolian Natural History Museum ( mn, Байгалийн түүхийн музей) is a repository and research institution located 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 ...

Mongolia Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of , with a population of just 3.3 million, ...

. 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

. 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 ''Tarbosaurus'' ( ; meaning "alarming lizard") is a genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur that flourished in Asia about 70 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous Period, considered to contain a single known species, ''Tarbosaurus ba ...

'' tyrannosaurid and broadly contemporaneous nests of ''

Protoceratops ''Protoceratops'' (; ) is a genus of small protoceratopsid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous, around 75 to 71 million years ago. The genus ''Protoceratops'' includes two species: ''P. andrewsi'' and the larger ''P. hellenik ...

'' 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 Museum'' ( mn, Үндэсний музей). In 1940-1941 the museum became known as the ''Rural Research Museum ( mn, Орон нутаг судлах музей) and in 1956 as the ''State Central Museum'' ( mn, Улсын төв музей). The museum received its current designation after the 1991 democratic revolution. The previous building was erected in 1953, and was deemed to be highly susceptible to natural disasters such as earthquakes in a study made in 2013. It was scheduled to be replaced by a new building, with budgeting planned to start in 2014. The demolition process started despite public anger early in December 2019. The structure was demolished in the night around 2a.m. on 7 December 2019.

Name

The museum was previously known as the Mongolian National Museum or State Central Museum. This change in name often led to confusion with Ulaanbaatar's other preeminent museum, the

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 ...

. Although the two museums are located quite close to one another, they contain very different exhibits. The Mongolian National Museum focuses on the archaeology and history of Mongolia, while the Mongolian Natural History Museum is concerned primarily with the flora, fauna, geology and natural history of the country.

References

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External links

Official site
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