Ulaanbaatar
“Chinggis Khaan” International Exhibition to Open in Prague
Art & Culture
Ulaanbaatar, June 20, 2024 /MONTSAME/. Under the auspices of President of Mongolia and President of the Czech Republic, an International Exhibition themed “Chinggis Khaan” will be opened in the Czech National Museum in Prague, within the first quarter of 2025. Next year will mark the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Mongolia and the Czech Republic.
An official contract regarding the exhibition
was signed by Director of the “Chinggis Khaan National Museum” of Mongolia S.
Chuluun and General Director of the
National Museum of the Czech Republic Michal Lukeš on June 19, 2024.
The exhibition will display exhibits dating back to the Hunnu Empire and the Great Mongol Empire, as well as Buddhist religious artifacts.
The “Chinggis Khaan Museum” of Mongolia
organized the “Chinggis Khaan: How the Mongols Changed the World” exhibition in
Nantes, France, in 2023. Within five months of the display of the exhibition,
250 thousand visitors explored Mongolian history and culture. The artifacts
displayed in the exhibition in Nantes were shipped back to Mongolia, which will
be demonstrated at the National Museum in Prague in 2025, and later at the
Rietberg Museum in Zürich, Switzerland in October 2025, and then in the US and
Canada.
The National Museum of the Czech Republic
opened in 1818 and currently has over 20 million exhibits, which make up 30
percent of all museums’ collections in the Czech Republic. Considered one of
the biggest museums in Europe, it employs 300 researchers and experts and sees
over 1.5 million visitors annually. There are over 2500 Mongol artifacts in the
Museum, 50 percent of which are religious, and the remaining are everyday items
used by Mongols. In collaboration with the Chinggis Khaan Museum, the National
Museum of the Czech Republic will publish a book called “Mongol Heritage in
Czechia” as part of the “Heritage of Mongols Spread Around the World” literary
project supported by the Ministry of Culture of Mongolia.
