A new building for the Mongolian Natural History Museum is expected to be in service by 2016. The previous museum building was closed down when the State Specialized Inspection Agency of Mongolia submitted a condition report in June, 2013, stating that the building was no longer suitable for service. This report was submitted after three inspections of the museum between 2007 and 2011.

The condition report found that the museum building, built in 1953, was structurally unsound and was at risk of collapsing.

Since last August, over 10,000 showpieces that were packaged and stored in the museum have been transported to a proper storage facility. The process of relocating items from the museum’s collection was undertaken over the course of a year.

The demolition of the museum’s showroom will begin soon and the first phase of building the new museum will commence next year.