Zanabadzar Museum of Fine Arts

The Dzanabadzar Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in the capital of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar. The building, which houses the museum, was founded in 1965, and in 1985, on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of Zanabadzar, an outstanding sculptor and founder of Mongolian portraiture, the museum was renamed in his honor.

The building in which the museum is located was built in the early XX century and is one of the first two-storey houses of the Russian type in Urga. It was built by a Russian merchant, but did not live here long.

To date, more than 18 thousand exhibits are stored in the museum funds. Permanent exhibitions devoted to the life and work of Zanabadzar, early medieval art, religious painting-tank, application, Mongolian-Tibetan printing, is the largest repository of Mongolian art in the world.

The exhibits of the museum were shown abroad: in 1994, for the first time, a major Western European exhibition "Mongolian Treasures" was held at the Paris Museum of Oriental Arts, as well as exhibitions are regularly held in the Netherlands, USA, Korea, China, Germany, Spain and Japan.