What to See in Ulaanbaatar

khan or "Holy King" and continued to govern as a constitutional monarch from the time of the Mongolian People's Revolution in 1921 until his dearth of illness in 1924. After Bogd Khan death in 1924 it was turned into museum Bogd Khan palace was founded as the first National historical museum of Mongolia. In 1954 was founded The state central museum and the Bogd Khan palace museum became the branch museum. Since 2000 the museum is activating as Bogd Khan palace museum.Now the Bogd Khan palace museum consists of seven Summer Prayer temples and the winter palace. The collections of the museum include unique and valuable objects related to Mongolia's political, religious, and artistic history from the 17 to early 20th centuries: bronze castings, silk paintings, mineral paintings, and paper icons made by well-known artists and artisans of the period, among others the first Bogd Javzundamba Zanabazar and his school; as well as objects owned and used by the VIII Bogd Javzundamba and his wife queen Dondogdulam, including royal clothing and equipment, gifts from domestic and foreign guests or representatives, and items purchased by the king for his own diversion. The collection of the museum is consists of a great number of original objects and works of art from the Bogd Khan palace and is divided into 12 parts: sculpture, scrolls paintings/thangka/, applique, wood carving, religious objects, clothes, furniture, decorative arts, collection of stuffed animal, special collection, support collection and architecture.. Also all exhibits is divided into: high level category, valuable category and original category. Nowadays we have 68 exhibits of high level category and 23 exhibits of valuable category. The number of these categories will be increasing. Exhibits of high level category includes gilded bronze sculptures made by the famous master Zanabazar and school of Zanabazar, thangka paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries, the painting shown the capital city of Mongolia 1912 made by Jugder, original paintings made by founder of Mongolian modern painting B.Sharav and expensive clothes of khan and queen.

When the national central museum was located in present location in 1956, it has been enriching its exhibitions and expanded as a big natural department, which has various kinds of geographical, flora, fauna and paleontological exhibits. The government Resolution, which to classify the museums in different fields like as the developed countries, was passed and the national central museum was abolished in 1991. Since 1992, a new museum was established in the place of national central museum with the purpose of being the leader natural central museum for the further development, getting foreigners enjoyed in international level, showing the geological history such as locations of planets and earth establishment and formations and show the biology characteristics of earth central zone and named as Museum of Natural History. Natural history involves historical process of 4.7 milliard years of that is very long term from the origin of the world until the origin of plant, animal and human. Thus our museum shows the briefness of these events by exhibitions and contributes knowledge to peoples mind. The museum consists of: Mongolian geography, ancient volcanoes, stones from the volcanoes, Earth origin, planet studying meteorites, Geological history, useful resources, minerals, Ancient and contemporary botany, Land fauna /mammals, birds, fishes, insects, reptiles, amphibious, Very ancient plant and animals, paleontology, Human origin

According to the decree of the Peoples Khural, November 1941, the monastery was included in the list of historical and cultural monuments and was taken charge by the Committee of sciences in 1942. It was then turned into a museum. The museum is an ensemble of Buddhist architecture and consists of 5 temples and 5 arched gates. In the main temple there is the sculpture of Choijing Lama and the embalmed mummy of his teacher. It also contains the great coral mask of Begtse, created under the direction of protectors using over 6,000 pieces of coral. Yadam temple and Amgalan temple contain rare artifacts made by the famous Mongolian artist and sculptor, Zanabazar. In total the museum has over 5,000 items out of which 12 are unique and 200 are particularly valuable.

government building, and leader of the 1990 democratic revolution, Zorig, southwest of the square. Many lesser known statues are scattered through the city. The statue of the Beatles in front of State Dept Store and the villain from the movie Predator in front of a small office building 100 m northeast of State Dept Store have some novelty value, while Stalin's bust is inside a Beer Garden south of Sukhbaatar. There are also some Soviet murals on the side of apartment buildings north of the Bogd Khan Winter Palace.

News of the auction quickly set off an international criminal case that resulted in the arrest of Prokopi, and the return of dozens of dinosaur fossils to Mongolia by the US government. Mongolia then decided to convert the old Lenin Museum into a place to display its greatly expanded collection of dinosaur fossils, all of which were found in the Gobi Desert. The museum opened its door in July 2014.

ngol Empires, the Chinese rule, Communist era, and the democratic revolution in 1990. There is even displays of self-portraits and personal possession of Genghis Khan and other great khans of the Mongol Empire. Most displays are in English and Mongolian. This should be a first stop on any visit to the city.

Inside the Government House is a small museum with artifacts from the Mongol Empire and a reproduction of Genghis Khan's White Peace Banners of State (the Soviets had the originals destroyed in the 1930s).

Very little is in English, so it may be hard to understand the meanings.

The museum has exhibited over 80 international exhibitions and fairs in 50 countries.