An average person to spend 8-9 hours to see the Chinggis Khaan Museum www.news.mn
Most people want to enjoy a museum, not conquer it. Yet the average visitor spends 15 to 30 seconds in front of a work of art. Therefore, an average person will spend 8-9 hours to see every corner of the Chinggis Khaan Museum, which recently opened in Mongolian capital city of Ulaanbaatar.
Director of the Chinggis Khaan Museum, S.Chuluun, the museum has a total of 100423 exhibits; 93 percent of them are original.
The museum opened to public on 13 October. The museum was free for children aged 0-16, elders and people with disabilities for three days. Now, the museum entrance fee costs for MNT 30,000 for adults and foreigners.
The museum was built on the site of the current natural history museum, located in the heart of Ulaanbaatar just to the north-west of the State Palace. The nine-story modern museum with 15 exhibition halls covers an area of 20,500 square meters.
The Chinggis Khaan Museum became one of the biggest museum in Asia that showcasing nomads history.
After uniting the nomadic tribes of the Mongolian plateau, Chinggis Khaan conquered huge chunks of central Asia and China. His descendants expanded the Mongol Empire even further, advancing to such far-off places as Poland, Vietnam, Syria and Korea. At their peak, the Mongols controlled between 11 and 12 million contiguous square miles, an area about the size of Africa.
Published Date:2022-10-18