National Museum of Mongolia

Origins trace to 1924, when the first national museum collections began. The current building was erected in 1971 as the Museum of Revolution; ethnography, prehistory, middle history, national history and paleontology collections were meanwhile housed in the 1956 Central Museum building.

In 1991, the Central Museum's ethnography, prehistory and middle history holdings merged with 20th-century material at the Museum of Revolution to form the National Museum of Mongolian History, renamed the National Museum of Mongolia in April 2008.

Mongolia's largest museum holds over 57,000 objects spanning Central Asian and Mongolian history from prehistory to the late 20th century, across ten halls: Ancient History of Mongolia, Ancient States, Traditional Clothing and Jewelry, the Mongolian Empire, Mongolian Traditional Culture, Mongolian Traditional Life, 17th-20th Century Mongolia, Mongolia 1911-1920, Socialist Mongolia (1921-1990), and Democratic Mongolia (1990-present).

It draws about 60,000 visitors yearly (half foreign, half domestic, including many students and children), runs joint projects with museums in the US, Korea, Japan, Russia, Germany and China, and since 2008 provides methodological guidance to museums nationwide. It publishes "Nomadic Heritage Studies" and "Museum News" twice yearly, with a staff of 60, funded by admissions and the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism.