Visit the Mongolian Theater Museum, an art museum that showcases the origins and development of Mongolian theater art through the ages. Explore a total of more than 9,000 exhibits, including photographs, paintings, musical instruments, stage sets, costume sketches, performance costumes, documents, and posters.
Discover 6 exhibition halls, with about 30 percent of the total exhibits displayed. See portraits and paintings of artists in the portrait hall. Admire photos of the Theater Arts Hall, the origin and development of the modern folk theater, the drama club (1922-1924), the folk stadium (1926), the State Central Theater (1931), and the senior artists and performances.
Learn about the State Opera and Ballet Academic Theater, which branched out from the State Central Theater, the Circus, the Folk Song and Dance Ensemble, the Military Theater, the Puppet Theater, the Children and Youth Theater, and the State Philharmonic. See costumes, posters, paintings, sculptures, music, dolls, photographs, and programs related to the performances of the State Philharmonic.
View a main exhibition that summarizes the history of the development of the two major national theaters, the Drama Theater and the Opera and Ballet Theater, in the 1950s-1970s, and how they staged national and foreign classical works. See paintings, presentations, and sculptures of artists in the Sacred Muse Hall.
Admire national and contemporary musical instruments and paintings used by artists who worked at the Central Theater in the Music Hall. See paintings about the nomadic theater tradition, tsam costumes, bags, and various costumes, models, and documents related to the "Namtar geulukh datsan" temple theater of the famous 19th-century enlightener, Dogshin Noyon Khutagt D. Danzanravjaa in the Theater Tradition Hall.
Finally, see exhibits about the historical development of Mongolian cinema and the first documentary and feature films starting in the 1940s, including photographs, paintings, technical equipment, posters, and trophies in the Cinema Hall.
