Natural History Museum

The Gobi


Filled with bad taxidermy, a replica Tarbosaurus skeleton and some fossils, including a 130-million-year-old fossilised turtle.


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Nearby The Gobi attractions

1. Museum of History and Ethnography

0.18 MILES

Formerly the Aimag Museum and set inside the sports stadium, the collection here is well laid-out and worth a quick look. There is a good display on…

2. Lamyn Gegeenii Gon Gandan Dedlin Khiid

0.54 MILES

The original monastery by this name, one of Mongolia's largest at the time, was located 20km east of Bayankhongor City. It was levelled by the communist…

3. Bayankhongor Stupa

0.68 MILES

The skyline of the city is dominated by this stupa (and the telecom tower beside it) on a hill to the west of the city's main square. Take a walk up here …