MONGOLIA AND JAPAN WILL HELP MUSEUMS

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia /MONTSAME/ A UNESCO project, aimed to improve museums' capabiity 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. Trainings will run in Ulaanbaatar city and 21 aimags 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 professionals and training 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 attended 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. B.Oyundelger