Ulaanbaatar
Minister of Culture Receives the UK Ambassador
Politics
Ulaanbaatar, April 7, 2023 /MONTSAME/. Minister of Culture Ch. Nomin received Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) to Mongolia Mr. Philip Malone on March 30.
During the meeting, the sides
exchanged views on Mongolian policy on cultural and creative industry and
cooperation opportunities in line with the policy. For instance, the sides
discussed establishing an intergovernmental agreement to jointly produce a
movie as Mongolia has approved the Law on Promoting Film Industry.
Moreover, the Minister of Culture
highlighted some cultural projects that require close collaboration with the
UK, a leader in the world's cultural and creative industry, under the Mongolian
policy on the cultural and creative industry. One of them is an epic Mongolian
drama “Throne without a Seal” which will be staged in the London Coliseum
Theater under the name “The Mongol Khan” in November 2023. To that extent, the
Minister of Culture asked for the Ambassador’s support on this project, and to
closely cooperate.
In addition, the Mongolian
National Museum and the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit of the Department
of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge have signed the Memorandum of
Understanding, enabling bilateral cooperation in Mongolian studies and
sciences, joint research, and exchanges of researchers. Under the MoU, a
special exhibition with the theme “Mongolian Shamanic Tradition” is going to be
displayed in Ulaanbaatar in September 2023.
Besides the selected objects from
the collection of the Mongolian National Museum, photographs, videos, archival
materials, and other historical documents kept in the Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology of the University of Cambridge, such as collections of Mongolian
historical photographs taken by Owen Lattimore and Ethel Lindgren, will be
displayed at the exhibition.
