The long legal battle over the privatization of the Lenin Museum has finally been solved after one year of debate. The high profile case has now been resolved and the ownership of the Lenin Museum was decided in favor of its intended use as museum after 11 delay by the claimant the Mongolian People`s Party (MPP).

On Wednesday, the Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism Ts.Oyungerel and the Chairman of the State Property Committee D.Tsogtbaatar made a joint announcement that the Lenin Museum is confirmed as state property after the decisions of three levels of courts.

The Government decided to convert the Lenin Museum into a building to promote the history of dinosaurs with the intention to protect, verify and register paleontological findings and cultural heritage after the smuggled Tyrannosaurus (Tarbosaurus) Bataar skeleton was returned back home. The Lenin Museum was built using the State budget on the decision of the Ministry of Culture in 1974.

However after the owner of the building, the Historical Institute of MPRP was abolished, the former MPRP, now MPP,  has used the building as a commercial property.

The Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism plans to hold an open tender for the reconstruction and repair works of the main building in order to turn the museum into a paleontological museum where Tyrannosaurus (Tarbosaurus) Bataar and other dinosaur fossils can be displayed for the public.