MONGOLIA AND JAPAN WILL HELP MUSEUM

A UNESCO PROJECT AIMED TO IMPROVE MUSEUM'S CAPABILITY TO DEVELOP, LAUNCHED ITS CONSULTATIVE MEETING ON AUGUST 24.

THE TWO-YEAR PROJECT, SPONSORED BY THE JAPANESE TRUST FUND, WILL IMPROVE QUALIFICATIONS AND KNOWLEDGE OF OUR MUSEUMS' STAFFERS.

Training will run in Ulaanbaatar city and 21 aimages on a basis of National museum’s training center.

In 2008 the government changed the National museum and all local museums ordering them to provide themselves with information, professional-methodological management and trainings, but the National museum is still has a great need for professionnals and trainings materials.. That is why it is decided to expand its scope, to strictly maintain international norms in storing/keeping cultural and arts heritage, and to show them to public, The project have been drawn up and implemented by Mongolian specialists with a help of Japan.

The opening ceremony was attented by Ms Ts. Oyungerel, the Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism; Mr Takenori Shimizu, the Ambassador of Japan to Mongolia; Koichiro Matsuura, the former director-general of UNESCO; Abhimanyu Singh, director and Representative of UNESCO office in Beijing; Shigeharu Kato, general-secretary of the Japanese National commission in UNESCO.

SOURCE : MONTSAME.MN