Ulaanbaatar, /MONTSAME/ Today is the International Day of Museums. On the occasion of the Day,
Mr. O.Enkhtuvshin, Mongolian Minster of Education, Culture and Science,
has granted certificates of confirmation to 260 unique and valuable
exhibits and monuments. They are kept in 13 museums and organizations,
including the Bogd Khan Palace Museum, the Natural History Museum, the
Paleontology Museum, the National Library, the Erdene Zuu Museum, the
State Treasure Fund, the Gandantegchinlen Monastery, the Archeology
Institute of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, and in the Shankh and
Tuvkhun temples in Ovorkhangai Aimag. The exhibits were confirmed as
the unique and valuable items in 1995-2005, but no certificate for
confirmation was granted to them. The certificates for confirmation
were given to ten sutras and 12 Buddha images in the National Library,
67 unique monuments in the Fine Art Museum named after Zanabazar, to
belongings, state protocol costumes, and other items regarding the
historic persons such as the Bogd Khan and his queens, and rarest
paleontological findings. Activities will be performed to classify the
historic and cultural monuments being kept in rural museums and
organizations to provide certificates of confirmation. The material
objects related to the Gobi Noyon Khutugtu Danzanravjaa will be
classified this year.
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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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