Mongolian_Natural_History_Museum
Mongolian Natural History Museum
Museum in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
The Natural History Museum of Mongolia (Mongolian: Байгалийн түүхийн музей) is a repository and research institution located in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The museum was previously known as the Mongolian National Museum or State Central Museum.
The museum includes Departments of Geology, Geography, Flora and Fauna, Paleontology, and Anthropology encompassing the natural history of Mongolia. The museum's holdings include more than 15000 specimens, 45% of which were on permanent public display.
The museum is particularly well known for its dinosaur and other paleontological exhibits, among which the most notable are a nearly complete skeleton of a late Cretaceous Tarbosaurus tyrannosaurid and broadly contemporaneous nests of Protoceratops eggs.
The old museum building was demolished in 2019 and the museum moved to the site of the Central Museum of Dinosaurs of Mongolia, with which it had been merged.