Winter Palace of the Bogd Khan

The Bogd Khan Winter Palace was built as a two-storey European-style building, according to a design by an architect from Tsarist Russia. Buddhist motifs were added to the roof and the walls were painted with lotus patterns, to make the palace look like a Buddhist temple. Bogd Khan spent 20 winters in this building. Today, the palace is included in a museum consisting of seven summer temples and a winter palace, and its collections include unique and valuable pieces related to Mongolia's political, religious and artistic history from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth century, such as bronze artifacts, silk paintings and paper figures made by famous artists and craftsmen from those period, along with royal clothing and equipment.