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Retracing Hans Leder
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“The Mongolian Collections: Retracing Hans Leder” exhibition is being unveiled at the Bogd Khan Palace Museum by researcher and social anthropologist Maria Katharina Lang.
First set foot in Mongolia in 1892 as an entomologist, Austrian researcher Hans Leder had developed a serious interest in Mongolian ethnology and Buddhism as he conducted a series of explorations through the country between 1899 and 1905.
A recently developed historic map showing Hans Leder’s travel routes, as well as the graphical map expressing his network of finding artifacts is two of the most interesting exhibits. More than 4,500 artifacts collected by Hans Leder are being conserved in the ethnological museums of Vienna, Budapest, Leipzig, Stuttgart and Berlin.
The exhibition also has a photographic section expressing the shift of Buddhist monasteries from being religious places to becoming museums and, then in 1990, with the revival of political and religious freedom in Mongolia, how the monasteries became complexes for both religious rites and museum activities.
First set foot in Mongolia in 1892 as an entomologist, Austrian researcher Hans Leder had developed a serious interest in Mongolian ethnology and Buddhism as he conducted a series of explorations through the country between 1899 and 1905.
A recently developed historic map showing Hans Leder’s travel routes, as well as the graphical map expressing his network of finding artifacts is two of the most interesting exhibits. More than 4,500 artifacts collected by Hans Leder are being conserved in the ethnological museums of Vienna, Budapest, Leipzig, Stuttgart and Berlin.
The exhibition also has a photographic section expressing the shift of Buddhist monasteries from being religious places to becoming museums and, then in 1990, with the revival of political and religious freedom in Mongolia, how the monasteries became complexes for both religious rites and museum activities.
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