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2024-06-19
CHINGGIS KHAAN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION WILL OPEN IN PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC

In 2025 will mark the 75th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between Mongolia and Czech Republic.

Under the patronage of the presidents of the two countries, the international exhibition on the theme “Chinggis Khaan” will be held in the first quarter of next year in the National Museum in Prague, capital of Czech Republic, Director of Chinggis Khaan National Museum of Mongolia, academician Chuluun Sampildondov, and General Director of the National Museum of Czech Republic, Dr. Michal Lukeš have signed in 19th of June, 2024.

The exhibition is a comprehensive exhibition, artifacts from time of the Xiongnu, the first formal state in Mongolian history to the Great Mongol Empire and Buddhism. In 2023, Chinggis Khaan National Museum successfully organized the exhibition “Chinggis Khaan: How Mongols Changed the World” in Nantes, France, and more than 250,000 people visited and watched the historical and cultural artifacts of Mongolia in 5 months.

The artifacts and findings from Mongolia in the exhibition have now returned to Mongolia. Furthermore that will be displayed in the National Museum of the Czech Republic in 2025, and in October in the Rietberg Museum in Zurich, Switzerland, and afterwards in Canada and the United States.

The National Museum of the Czech Republic was founded in 1818, has more than 20 million exhibits, which means more than 30% of the museum collection of Czech Republic, and more than 300 researchers and specialists work in it. National Museum, which is considered the one of the largest in Europe, presents its museum collection storage to more than 1.5 million people in a year.

The museum has more than 2,500 objects related with Mongolian, half of which are related to mostly Buddhism and others are related to the daily life of Mongols. Chinggis Khaan National Museum is working with it for create the book “Mongolian Heritage in the Czech Republic” within the framework of the project “Mongolian Heritage Spread Around the World”, which is implemented with the support of the Ministry of Culture of Mongolia.

The Chinggis Khaan exhibition will be on display for 5 months.