The Science Academy has proposed to Prime Minister S.Batbold a project to establish a complex to preserve the heritage of Central Asian nomads. The complex is planned at a site 24 kilometers from Chinggis Khaan Airport. It will have 11 units, including a paleontology museum, a Khunnu research museum, a 20^th-century Mongolians’ gallery, a museum of nomadic culture and history in Central Asia, a Chinggis Khaan museum, a culture museum, a sports field, a parking lot and garages, a service center, an administration building and a hotel.

“This will be the biggest center of Mongolian studies and emphasize the big role the region’s nomadic communities played in human history,” said B.Enkhtuvshin, the Academy”s president. The Prime Minister favored the proposal but wanted cultural heritage exhibits to be under state protection. He said the state will support the work, but suggested the Academy should raise funds at the Stock Exchange after forming a company.

The 2220th anniversary of the first central Asian nomad state will be celebrated in 2011, and the 850 birth anniversary of Chingis Khaan in 2012. The Academy wants the first stage of construction works to be finished by 2012, and the second stage by 2015.