The Ministry of Culture, Sports, Tourism and Youth, in cooperation with the Chinggis Khaan National Museum, has organized a series of exhibitions in prestigious museums in Europe and Asia. ✅ During the state visit of the President of Mongolia to the Italian Republic, the agreements signed were brought to fruition. The Chinggis Khaan National Museum exhibited the works of Undur Gegeen Zanabazar at the Borghese Gallery in Rome for the first time alongside world classical masterpieces. Over the course of about a month, more than 40,000 people visited the exhibition.

On February 26, the ancient capital of Italy, Zanabazar: “The Wisdom of the Steppes” will be presented to the audience of the new European exhibition. 

At the invitation of the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, one of the world’s leading universities in Oriental Studies, Academician S. Chuluun, Director of the Chinggis Khaan Museum, held a lecture exhibition titled “Zanabazar: Hidden Deities in the Taiga”, and discussed and agreements reached to collaborate with the university’s Museum of Oriental Peoples on exhibitions and research exchange programs.

Academic S. Chuluun led seven years of archaeological research at Saridag Monastery, the palace of Undur Gegeen Zanabazar, making major discoveries and confirming it as the place where the revered master created his famous sculptures. The Oriental Studies Department of the University of Naples was the oldest in Europe, founded in 1732. The Mongolian language is specially taught in the program of the school’s Central Asian, Chinese, Tibetan, and Arabic studies, and the Persian and Ilkhanate studies. Renowned scholars, such as Professor Mihail Bernardani on empires, Persia, and the Ilkhanate, and Professor Bayarmaa Khaptagaeva on Mongolian language and literature, teach at the university.