Branch museums

Tsedenbal Yu., First Secretary of the Tuv Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Mongolia, ordered to establish museum during his visit in Zuunmod gap and the ruins of Manzushir Monastery in 1969. The establishment of the museum was completed in 1972, and by the decision of the Executive Council of the Committee of People's Deputies of the Tuv Province, the nature museum was commissioned.

Shagdarsuren D., an artist and sculptor of the People's Republic of China, who worked as the curator of the "Local Studies" museum at that time, created works of art using natural materials such as stones, broken glass, peanut bones, pine cones, sawdust, flowers and leaves, Wood carvings by Sumya O., journalist and reporter, stuffed animals made by Tsevel Ya. and Dagiimaa D., a member of the National Hunters Association, a member of the National Hunter Society, and a master stuffer of the Natural History Museum, were displayed. In addition to the museum, you will see relics such as human stones belonging to the Tureg period of the VI-VIII and XVIII-XIX centuries of AD, millstones of the XVIII-XIX centuries used in agricultural production, and temple decorations.

The large pot outside the Natural Museum was brought by the Shagdarsuren D. from the Tuul area and placed in the middle of the 1970s.

Manzushir Monastery, which existed for 300 years in the foothills of Bogd Khan Mountain, was one of the largest monasteries in Mongolia in the early XYIII - XX centuries, and now the ruins of the monastery remain. The Manzushir Khutagt’s summer house "Seruun Lavrin" museum was rebuilt by the Department of Historical and Cultural Monuments Restoration in 1989-1991, and the Museum of Religion was commissioned in 1992.

In the museum, you will see photographs of the Manzushir Monastery from the 1920s, models showing the location of the temple, and religious exhibits, as well as the ruins of the monastery and portraits of deities carved on the rocks behind the monastery.

In 1733, Agwaanluvsanjambaldanzan Lama, the first Donkhor Manzushir Khutagt of Khalkh Mongolia, along with seven Tangad monks, explored the area and found a carved white stone "White Old Man" and a jade "Naidan" deity and they considered this is good sign. Then, the first temple was built with 800 lans of silver (one lan equals to37.2 gr) collected from monks and other people, and it was completed in 1747. This is the beginning of this monastery. There were 17-21 mosques with unique styles, such as "Dashchoihorlon" of 1748 or Uvgun lavrin, Tsanid Dugan which were built in 1756, Badam-Yog datsan in 1760, Şhar Khuree (Bogd's Resting Palace) in 1770, Seruun Lavrin for Khutagt Resting in 1780, Mashbat built in 1866 In 1892, Jud, Manba datsan, Maidar, and Sersem datsan schools.

There are many wonderful works in the monastery, such as precious idols of deities and tsam maidar ornaments. One of them is "Sandui Jud" or "Dorj Zodov", which is the only one in the world made of gold and silver. or the Diamond Cutting Sutra is now stored in the Tuv treasury as one of Mongolia's most valuable exhibits.

On the cliff north of the monastery, more than 20 deities have been carved, including "Bogd Zonkhov", "White Old Man", "Otoch Manal", Myal Bogd, "Buddhist", Tsagaan and Nogoon Dari Ekh, and the deities on the ruins of the monastery are still preserved. It was protected by Resolution No. 233 of 1994, Resolution No. 235 of 1998, Resolution No. 175 of 2008, and Resolution No. 13 of 2020 of the Government of Mongolia.