TUV PROVINCE MUSEUM

The Tuv Province Museum was first established in 1951. The museum has about 5,700 exhibits of art, history, ethnography, religion, archaeology, and nature and has 18 employees. The museum is a non-profit cultural and academic institution with the functions of registering, collecting, preserving, researching, promoting and disseminating movable cultural heritage items, and organizes various exhibitions and multifaceted educational activities based on research and promotion.

Exhibition halls of the Central museum

In the Tuv museum, exhibits are displayed in seven halls: history of the province, nature, religion, celebrity, ethnicity, foreign relations, and temporary exhibitions. Outside the museum building, you can see Tureg period turtles from the AD VI-VIII centuries, and related stone board and places from the end of the 19th century and archaeological exhibits such as millstones that were used in agricultural production.

Hall 1: Historical chronology and geography of Tuv Province

The territory of Tuv Province is geographically located in the north-eastern Tuv part of Mongolia and the province is belonged to mountainous region of Khangai and Khentii and steppe region of Eastern Mongolia. Zuunmod, the capital of the province, is located in the foothills of Bogd Khan Mountain at an altitude of 1529m above sea level, 43 km from Ulaanbaatar. The total length of the border of the province is 1552 km, the land area is 74.8 thousand square kilometers, 16.4% of it is forest and 36.5% is the steppe zone.

In the exhibition, samples of geological minerals, relief of the province, a variety of topographic maps, and paleontological findings such as rhinoceros skulls, ribs, and fossilized trees found in the province are displayed.

Hall 2: Hall of Nature

The location of Tuv Province belongs to Khangai, steppe and Gobi regions. It is the habitat of many rare and endangered species. Therefore, you can see stuffed models of protected animals such as deer, moose, argali, ibex, sable, boar, bear, lynx, antelope, etc. and the types of trees that grow in the province.

Hall 3: The hall of history and religion

Scientists have determined that people have been living on the territory of Mongolia since about 800,000 years ago. At present, the oldest Stone Age monuments in the Lower Paleolithic period in Mongolia have been found in the Nariin Gol White Cave of Bayankhongor Province, as well as archeology and paleontology finds that are valuable natural, historical and cultural monuments of stone tools, bronze tools, and iron tools in the entire territory of Mongolia. There are many square tombs, petroglyphs, tombstones, deer stones, human stones, ancient city ruins, dung settlements, temples, and monuments.

Therefore, stone tools found in the territory of the province, artifacts from the Bronze Age, Hun and Tureg periods, and religious ritual exhibits are displayed.

Hall 4: Hall of Celebrities

The Tuv Province was established in 1923 under the name of Bogd Khan Mountain Province in the area of Tusheet Khan Province in the area of Uvur Dolood of present-day Lun Soum, and in 1931-1942 it was centered in Ulaanbaatar under the name of Tuv Province by the resolution No 12 of the Leaders of State Conference. Then, the province came and settled in Seruun Denj of Zuunmod gap, foothills of Bogdkhan Mountain. In this hall, pictures and exhibits of government and society, art, culture, sports, military, agriculture, hospital, education and finance celebrities of the province are displayed.

Hall 5: Hall of Ethnicity

Animal husbandry and household implements, men's and women's clothes and accessories, which are important for the livelihood of Mongolians, are on display.

Hall 6: Hall of Foreign Relations

Since 1973, Tuv province has been cooperating with the Kurgan Oblast of Russia, and has been expanding its cooperation with the oblasts and cities of other countries. For example, presentations and souvenirs from the representatives of Kurgan region of Russia, Karl Marx and Chemnitz cities of Germany, Tottori region of Japan, Kangwon region of Korea, Yarun region of the Republic of Buriat of Russia, Ulaantsav region of China, Jilin region, Brake city of Sweden are displayed.