National Museum of Mongolia
The National Museum of Mongolia ; 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."
The first museum in Mongolia, the Mongolian National 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 Mongolian and English. The museum publishes one or more issues of its in-house journal each year, with articles in Mongolian and foreign languages, including Russian and English.
