A ceremony to mark the 90th anniversary of the foundation of first modern museum in Mongolia was held at the National Museum of Mongolia on Wednesday February 26th. Several events are scheduled over a number of days for the 90th anniversary of the establishment of a museum in Mongolia.

At the ceremony, the Director of the National Museum, D.Sukhbaatar presented a copy of Mongolia`s historical map that was made in 1926 to the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism.

Treasuries and exhibits for the first museum in Mongolia were collected between 1921 and 1924 and the museum officially opened to public in 1924. Mongolian prominent scholar O.Jamiyan was the first director of the museum.

The museum relocated to the Winter Palace of the Bogd Khan and re-opened in 1926.
In Mongolia, the Revolutionary Museum (currently the National Museum of Mongolia) was opened in 1931, the Museum of Local Research in 1940-1941, the State Central Museum in 1956 , the new Revolutionary Museum in 1971 and the National Museum of Mongolian History and Natural History Museum in 1991.

Now there are a wealth of museums in Ulaanbaatar including the Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery, the Winter Palace museum of the Bogd Khan, the Choijin Lama Temple Museum, the Mongolian Military History Museum, the Mongolian State History Museum that are open to the public. There are 56 state owned and private museums that serve around 6-700,000 visitors a year in Mongolia.

Over recent years the museums of Mongolia conducted large touring exhibitions across the world with the aim of introducing the history, culture and natural history of Mongolia to its visitors in over 30 countries.