October 25, 2008

We ruin our culture by ourselves, don`t we?

People visit museums when they traveling to new places because a museum tell them a lot about the culture of those places. Traveling through museum gives us chance to take a trip through this country`s history, and also they will show us what art the locals think is important. It is obvious that the museum obtains the country`s most important historical heritage. But, in my opinion, today Mongolians don`t recognize the importance of this thing. Even though they pay a lot of attention to other sectors such as the appearance of the city, and the development of the country, they don`t invest cultural things such as museum.


One example that we are not giving attention to our museums is shown by the equipments which are used to restore the exhibits. In other countries exhibits are restored by appropriate materials whereas in our country they use the cheapest materials. There is an ancient Mand shir`s monastery, now it is used by museum, is located in Tov aimag, and it is said that the monastery`s building getting worse because of Chinese cheap paint. Another example, how Mongolians paying attention to museum, is shown by throwing trash in the museum. Why don`t we show respect and proud of our culture while going through the museum?


Mongolian Secret Agency found people who tried to sell Mongolian`s valuable paleontological exhibits to other countries. It is so tragic that the sellers were Mongolian scientists. The exhibit was valued about 12million togrog. It is not whether the exhibit costs high or low, only think they need to know is it obtain s invaluable information about our culture. As Chinggis told that did not give our Mongolian`s land even though the god asked, we must keep our cultural thing in our country.


All in all, the only things I want to say is that the first of all let us save our history, and then talk about development.

2 comments:

  1. i agree with u. these historic exhibits r things that prove Mongolia is independent country.'cause we have culture which is different from Chinese or Russian.

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  2. that's right! Our culture is one of the greatest in the world. If we don't protect ours, who'll protect it?!

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