Ulaanbaatar
Exhibition on nomads’ traditions for city development to be displayed in Europe
Art & Culture
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. On June 3, Director
of the Government Implementing Agency Culture and Arts Authority N.Munkhzul and
Deputy Director of Museum Rietberg Johannes Beltz signed a Memorandum of
Understanding at the Ministry of Culture.
Minister of Culture Ch.Nomin and Head of Swiss
Cooperation in Mongolia Stefanie Burri were present at the signing ceremony.
Under the MoU, an
exhibition on nomads’ traditions for city development will be displayed at
Museum Rietberg in Switzerland in 2024-2025, and the exhibition is planned to
be displayed in other major museums around the world.
In the framework
of the preparations being carried out for the exhibition, Deputy Director of Museum
Rietberg Johannes Beltz and the exhibition’s curators Alexandra von Przychowski and
Christina Franken are working in Mongolia.
The memorandum is
being established in order to ensure preparatory works as several organizations
of Mongolia will be cooperating in organizing the exhibition, which includes the
Institute of Archeology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, the National
Museum of Mongolia, the National University of Mongolia, and the Kharakhorum
Museum.
The Rietberg Museum is one of the
largest art museums in Switzerland, with a collection of traditional and
contemporary art and cultural heritage artifacts from Asia, Africa, the
Americas and Oceania. The museum’s collection
includes about 23,000 exhibits and artifacts, and more than 37,000 ethnographic
photographs.
