List of museums in Armenia
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List of the museums in Armenia
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Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
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- History Museum of ArmeniaHistory Museum of ArmeniaThe History Museum of Armenia is the national museum of Armenia founded in 1919 as Ethnographic-Anthropological Museum-Library. It is located on the Republic Square in Yerevan.- History :...
- Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient ManuscriptsMatenadaranThe Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts , commonly referred to as the Matenadaran , is an ancient manuscript repository located in Yerevan, Armenia...
- National Gallery of ArmeniaNational Gallery of ArmeniaThe National Gallery of Armenia is one of the biggest museums of the Republic of Armenia, locate in its capital, Yerevan.-History:...
- Yerevan History MuseumYerevan History MuseumThe Yerevan History Museum is the history museum of Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia. The museum was founded in 1931 as the Communal Museum...
- Charents Museum of Literature and ArtsCharents Museum of Literature and ArtsThe Charents Museum of Literature and Arts of Armenia is the largest repository of Armenian manuscripts and books encompassing the last three hundred years....
- Gerard L. Cafesjian Museum of ArtGerard L. Cafesjian Museum of ArtThe Cafesjian Center for the Arts is an art museum in Yerevan, Armenia. It is situated in central Yerevan in the area in and around the Cascade. At the core of the museum's permanent collection is the Gerard L. Cafesjian Collection of Art...
- ARF History MuseumARF History MuseumThe Armenian Revolutionary Federation History Museum is a museum in Yerevan, Armenia, that displays the history of the ARF and of its notable members....
- Erebuni FortressErebuni FortressErebuni Fortress also known as Arin Berd is a fortified city from the ancient kingdom of Urartu, located in what is present-day Yerevan, Armenia. It was one of several fortresses built along the northern Urartian border and was one of the most important political, economic and cultural centers of...
/ Erebuni MuseumErebuni museumErebuni Museum of History of Foundation of Yerevan was established in 1968. The opening of the museum was timed to coincide with the 2750th anniversary of Yerevan. The Museum stands at the foot of the Arin Berd hill, on top of which the Urartian Fortress Erebouni has stood since 782 BCE... - Museum of Folk Art of Armenia
- Museum of Modern Art
- The Armenian Genocide Museum-InstituteTsitsernakaberdTsitsernakaberd is a memorial dedicated to the victims of the Armenian Genocide; it is located on a hill overlooking Yerevan, Armenia. Every year on April 24, hundreds of thousands of Armenians gather here to remember the victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide that took place in the Ottoman Empire...
- Geology Museum of Gyumri
- Architecturial Museum of Gyumri
- Zoological Museum-InstituteYerevan Zoo-External links:...
- Museum of Natural History of Armenia
- H.Karapetyan Geological Museum
- Architectural National Museum-Institute
- "Mayr HayastanMother ArmeniaMother Armenia is the female personification of Armenia. Her most visual rendering is a monumental statue in Victory Park overlooking the capital city of Yerevan, Armenia.-History:...
" Military Museum - Museum of Middle East
House-museums
- Sergei Parajanov Museum
- House-Museum of Aram KhachaturianHouse-Museum of Aram KhachaturianThe Aram Khachaturian House-Museum opened in Yerevan, Armenia in 1982 and is devoted to the exhibition of the Armenian composer’s personal artifacts, as well as to the research and study of his creative output....
- Museum of Patriotic Movement named after Andranik Ozanian
- House-Museum of Hovhannes TumanyanHovhannes TumanyanHovhannes Tumanyan , is considered to be one of the greatest Armenian poets and writers. His work was mostly written in tragic form, often centering on the harsh lives of villagers in the Lori region.-Biography:...
- House-Museum of Yeghishe CharentsYeghishe CharentsYeghishe Charents was an Armenian poet, writer and public activist. Charents was an outstanding poet of the twentieth century, touching upon a multitude of topics that ranged from his experiences in the First World War, socialism, and, more prominently, on Armenia and Armenians.An early champion...
- House-Museum of Avetik IsahakyanAvetik IsahakyanAvetik Isahakyan , Ghazarapat, near Aleksandropol, current Gyumri, Russian Empire – October 17, 1957, Yerevan) was a prominent Armenian lyric poet, writer, academian and public activist.-Biography:...
- House-Museum of Alexander SpendiaryanAlexander SpendiaryanAlexander Spendiaryan was an Armenian music composer, conductor, founder of Armenian national symphonic music and one of the patriarchs of Armenian classical music. His compositions include the opera Almast and the Yerevan Etudes among others...
- House-Museum of Aram KhachaturianAram KhachaturianAram Ilyich Khachaturian was a prominent Soviet composer. Khachaturian's works were often influenced by classical Russian music and Armenian folk music...
- House-Museum of Yervand Kochar
- House-Museum of Khachatur AbovianKhachatur AbovianKhachatur Abovian ; ) was an Armenian writer and national public figure of the early 19th century who mysteriously vanished in 1848 and was presumed dead. He was an educator, poet and an advocate of modernization...
- House-Museum of Minas AvetisyanMinas Avetisyan- Biography :Minas Avetisyan was born in the village of Jajur, Armenia. His mother, Sofo, was a daughter of the priest from Kars. His father, Karapet, was a smith from Mush. His wife was Gayane Mamajanyan....
- House-Museum of Derenik DemirchianDerenik DemirchianDerenik Karapeti Demirchian or Derenik Demirchyan was a Georgian born Armenian poet, novelist and translator as well as playwright.- Biography :Demirchian was born on February 6, 1877, in Akhalkalaki in what is now southern Georgia...
- House-Museum of Martiros SaryanMartiros SaryanMartiros Saryan was an Armenian painter.He was born into an Armenian family in Nor Nakhijevan . In 1895, aged 15, he completed the Nakhichevan school and from 1897 to 1904 studied at the Moscow School of Arts, including in the workshops of Valentin Serov and Konstantin Korovin...