Uliastai

Built for the nine famous Saints of Buddhism.

The aimag museum was established in 1924 in the city of Uliastai. Today, there are two museums: the Famous People Museum of Zavkhan, and the Zavkhan History Museum. The Zavkhan History Museum consists of 6 halls: the Hall of Natural History, the Hall of Ethnography, the Hall of Cultural History, the Hall of Modern History, and the two Halls of Religious History. Highlights: the unique historical and cultural monuments including a fossilized shin bone and baby teeth of a mammoth, petrified trees from 80 million years ago, the rare herb Vansemberuu, the Jadamba writ, a historical document of horse-stations from the Manchu period, a 300 liter bronze cauldron from 1820, a coral mask of the deity Jamsran, the Khalkh woman’s and man’s full clothes with head silver decorations, Dilov saint B.Jamsranjav’s copper seal, and many famous people’s belongings.