Bogd Khan Palace Museum (Ulaanbaatar)

This palace known as The green palace was built between 1893-1903 during 10 years by Mongolian masters and dedicated to the VIII Bogd gegeen, the head of lamaist religion & last khan of Mongolia.In 1911 there was formed The Bogd Khan state and the VIII Bogd gegeen assumed political authority over Mongolia as the Bogdo khan or Holy King and continued to govern as a constitutional monarch from the time of the Mongolian People's Revolution in 1921 until his dearth of illness in 1924. After Bogd Khan death in 1924 it was turned into museum Bogd Khan palace was founded as the first National historical museum of Mongolia. In 1954 was founded The state central museum and the Bogd Khan palace museum became the branch museum. Since 2000 the museum is activating as Bogd Khan palace museum.Now the Bogd Khan palace museum consists of seven Summer Prayer temples and the winter palace. The collections of the museum include unique and valuable objects related to Mongolia's political, religious, and artistic history from the 17 to early 20-th centuries: bronze castings, silk paintings, mineral paintings, and paper icons made by well-known artists and artisans of the period, among others the first Bogd Javzundamba Zanabazar and his school; as well as objects owned and used by the VIII Bogd Javzundamba and his wife queen Dondogdulam, including royal clothing and equipment, gifts from domestic and foreign guests or representatives, and items purchased by the king for his own diversion. The collection of the museum is consists of a great number of original objects and works of art from the Bogd Khan palace and is divided into 12 parts: sculpture, scrolls paintings/thangka/, applique, wood carving, religious objects, clothes, furniture, decorative arts, collection of stuffed animal, special collection, support collection and architecture.. Also all exhibits is divided into: high level category, valuable category and original category. Nowadays we have 68 exhibits of high level category and 23 exhibits of valuable category. The number of these categories will be increasing. Exhibits of high level category includes gilded bronze sculptures made by the famous master Zanabazar and school of Zanabazar, thangka paintings from the XIX-XX centuries, the painting shown the capital city of Mongolia 1912 made by Jugder, original paintings made by founder of Mongolian modern painting B.Sharav and expensive clothes of khan and queen.

The complex was built between 1893 and 1903 named The temple of developing wisdom and dedicated to the 8th Bogd Jetsun Dampa, the head of Mongolian religion. The eighth Bogd Jetsun Dampa, twenty-third reincarnation of Taranatkha, was born in Lhasa, Tibet in 1869 as Agvaanluvsanchoijinnyam, son of an official of the Dalai lama.

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Bogd Khan’s Palace The Bogd Khan Palace is one of the most important monuments of Mongolian history and architecture. It was built between 1893 and 1906.

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In 1911, at the time of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in China, the independence of Outer Mongolia was proclaimed. The monarch of the first independent Mongolian state was the eighth Javzandamba Khutagt, Bogd Khan, who lived from1869 to 1924.

Built between 1893 and 1903, this palace is where Mongolia’s eighth Living Buddha, and last king, Jebtzun Damba Hutagt VIII (often called the Bogd Khan), lived for 20 years. For reasons that are unclear, the palace was spared destruction by the Russians and turned into a museum.

The Winter Palace of the Bogd Khan is located in southern Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on the road to Zaisan. It is now a museum. The palace is the only one left from originally four residences of the eighth Jebtsundamba Khutughtu, who was later proclaimed Bogd Khan, or emperor of Mongolia.