The Zanabazar Museum of Fine Arts features Mongolian art from prehistory through the early twentieth century. The present museum building, located in central Ulaanbaatar, was constructed in 1905 by a Russian merchant. At various times in its history, the building served as a Chinese bank, a Russian Red Army soldier's office, and a department store. The building was inaugurated as the Museum of Fine Arts in 1966.
Among the most significant holdings are sculptures, paintings, and related materials by Zanabazar (1635-1723), the First Bogd Gegen and Mongolia's greatest artist, and members of his school. The museum has more than 10,000 objects in its permanent collection, of which approximately 500 are on display in its second-floor galleries. Organized thematically, the galleries are devoted to prehistoric art, work by Zanabazar, painted thangkas, silk appliques, the Buddhist tsam dance, nomadic traditions, and paintings by the early twentieth-century master B. Sharav.
The Museum is closed on Mongolian Lunar New Year (Tsagaan Sar), 1st of January and 1st of June.
Address: Zanabazar Museum of Fine Arts
Khudaldaany Street, Barilgachdiin Square
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Tel: (976-11) 326060, 326061
Fax: (976-11) 326060
The museum of Mongolian Fine Arts was opened on June 23, 1966. This museum shows Mongolian Arts from the Paleolithic Age to the early 20th
century and consists of several types, such as, Ancient Arts,
Zanabazar’s schools and creative works, Tangka and Graphic paintings,
Appliqué hangings, Tsam ritual dance and Mongolian folk art and
architecture.
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During the Stalinist purges of the 1930's almost every monastery in Mongolia was destroyed. In 1979 an atlas was published in Ulaanbaatar by Mr. Rinchen with an overview of more than 900 religious sites that used to exist in Mongolia. However a lot the information listed seems to be not accurate. A research has been initiated to get a better idea of all the buddhist buildings that once stood in Mongolia.
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