National History Museum, Ulaanbaatar

A very nice museum with a lot to see. Total time took about 2 and a half hours. It was 10,000 tughriks for an adult ticket, plus another 10k to be able to take photography. I'm not sure taking photos was necessary, but it's not that much money. Several of the exhibits when I was there did have the "no photo" sign on them. That said, the museum itself is an absolute must visit if you are in Ulaanbaatar.

Pretty disappointing all things considered. We had some time to kill in UB and wanted to see some fossils. Mongolia has a huge rich history in terms of dinosaurs and fossils so was expecting a pretty decent showing. They had 3 or 4 really cool fossils and a full skeleton of one of the distant relatives of the T-rex which was nice, but as for the rest of it, it's pretty poor. I mean in the main hall, it seems like there's more meteorites than fossils. Make sure you go on the first floor to see the big skeleton. We almost bailed after two minutes and would have missed it otherwise. There's some taxidermy there which is a little odd, and a cabinet full of dead birds which frankly, is just weird. I'm a seasoned traveller, so wasn't expecting the Natural History Museum or the Met etc, but felt this could have been done a lot better. Some of the signs (not all) are in English, but you need to cross the rope to actually read them. So if you're not in the mood to grapple with security, take a pair of binoculars.