The museum was founded by the law accepted by the Parliament of the first republic of Armenia. It was called National anthropological museum-library. On August 20th, 1921 it was opened for the visitors. It was formed on the basis of collections of Caucasian Armenian Ethnographic company, museums of Armenian antiquities of Nor Nakhchevan, Antiquity Depository of Ani, Vagharshapat Matenadaran.
The national collection consisted of about 400000 items is kept in the State Museum of Armenian History, completing the culture and history of Armenia coming from pre-historic times.

The National Gallery of Armenia is the major fine art museum in Armenia and the largest in the world with its Armenian fine arts collection.
Established in 1921. The collection includes more than 40 000 highly valuable works of Armenian and foreign fine art and those of decorative-applied art among which are the famous masterpieces of Hovhannes Aivazovsky, Vardges Sureniants, Martiros Sarian, Wassily Kandinsky, Mark Chagall, Donatello, Gustave Courbet and other distinguished artists.

Yerevan History Museum is one of the highest cultural and scientific centers in the Armenian capital and represents the cultural heritage of Yerevan.
Yerevan History Museum was founded in 1931 under the Yerevan Municipal Communal Department and was called the Communal Museum.
It occupied one of the rooms of the Volunteer Fire Company building (1930, architect: Nikoghayos Buniatyan, third floor: Anna Ter-Avetikyan) built on the current Andrei Sakharov Square. In 1936, it moved to the premises of the Persian Blue Mosque (Goy Jami, built by Yerevan Sardar Hussein Ali Khan in 1765-1766), where it remained until the 1990s.
In 1982, by the decision of the Yerevan City Council, the building of the Hripsimyan Gymnasium (6 Amiryan Street) was allocated to the museum. Due to long-term renovations, the museum was moved here only in 1994 and remained there until 1997, then it was moved to the building of Stepan Shahumyan School No. 1 (33 Mashtots Avenue) and stayed there until 2005.
Since 2005, the museum has been operating in the Yerevan Municipality building (Argishti 1), where a separate area has been allocated to the museum (Argishti 1/1).
The architects of the building project Jim Torosyan, Romik Martirosyan, the constructor Henzel Hakobyan and the developer Gagik Galstyan (posthumously) were awarded the RA State Prize in 2007.
The members of the museum's scientific council were the greatest intellectuals of the time: architects Alexander Tamanyan, Toros Toramanyan, Nikoghayos Buniatyan, Mikayel Mazmanyan, painters Martiros Saryan, Gabriel Gyurjyan, Taragros (Taragros Ter-Vardanyan), sculptor Ara Sargsyan, scientists Stepan Lisitsyan, Yervand Shahaziz, Sedrak Barkhudaryan, Babken Arakelyan, Tadevos Hakobyan and others.
The current exhibition of the Yerevan History Museum was opened to visitors on April 3, 2007. The museum's collection includes about 100,000 unique archaeological, ethnographic, numismatic, fine art, decorative-applied art works and documentary materials representing the entire process of the formation and development of the city, starting from ancient times to the present day.
The main exhibition is presented in the sections "The History of Yerevan from Ancient Times to the Late Middle Ages", "Yerevan in the 19th Century", "Yerevan from the End of the 19th Century to the Present Day".
The archaeological works exhibited in the museum represent the city's millennial history, ethnographic and household items give an idea of the everyday life, customs and values of Yerevan residents, and artistic and documentary materials reveal the developments in urban planning, art and public life.
The Yerevan History Museum is a center for preserving urban memory and a unique visiting card of Yerevan.

OPENING HOURS
Monday - Saturday: 11:00 - 17:30

TICKETS
Adults – 1500 AMD
Students – 1000 AMD
Pupils – 500 AMD

EXCURSION
Armenian – 2000 AMD
English, Russian – 5000 AMD
Educational program – 3000 AMD

Director: Gevorg Orbelyan
Address: Argishti 1/1
Tel.: +37410 568 185
Website: www.yhm.am 
E-mail: tangaran@yerevan.am
 

In 2002 the USA Gafechean museum foundation opened in Yerevan “Cafesjian museum-foundation” with the aim of creating a museum of contemporary arts and a cultural center. The Republic of Armenia allocated an area and the half-built area of Cascade to the Cafesjian museum-foundation. While founding the GMF, Gerard L.Cafesjian passed his private collection of works of art to the museum designed by David Hotson, the architect from New York. Gerard Cafesjian museum will serve as the national center for art creativity and self-expression and tightly cooperate with the art-loving community. The main aim of the museum is to show world art of painting.

The Erebuni Historical and Archaeological Reserve-Museum was founded in 1968 on the occasion of the 2750th anniversary of the founding of Yerevan. It is an important Urartian research center of the region.
The Erebuni Historical and Archaeological Reserve-Museum was founded on October 19, 1968, to mark the 2750th anniversary of the city of Yerevan.
The reserve-museum was created on the basis of 3 famous archaeological sites located within the administrative boundaries of Yerevan: Arin Berd, Karmir Blur and Shengavit, and the material cultural values and finds discovered at these sites. The reserve-museum has 2 branches: the Shengavit early agricultural settlement on the shores of Lake Yerevan and the city of Erebuni, built by Rusa II in the southwestern suburbs of Yerevan, on the banks of the Hrazdan River, in the 7th century BC. The fortress city of Teyshebaini (Karmir Blur) was built in the mid-19th century. With its branches, it occupies an area of about 80 hectares.
The authors of the project of the Erebuni Museum building are architects Shmavon Azatyan and Baghdasar Arzumanyan, and the sculptor Ara Harutyunyan. It is the only archaeological reserve-museum in Yerevan and an important Urartian research center in the region.
The collection of the Erebuni Museum consists of more than 20,000 archaeological objects from the pre-Urartian, Urartian, Achaemenid, Hellenistic and early Armenian periods, discovered from the ancient sites of Arin Berd, Karmir Blur, Shengavit, as well as from random or regular excavations in different regions of Armenia, grouped into 160 collections.
The permanent exhibition of the museum presents the history of Urartu, its developed economy, architecture and fine arts, irrigation and fortification systems, construction techniques, wall painting, pottery and other material evidence testifying to the progress of the state in other areas.

OPENING HOURS
Tuesday to Sunday: 10:30-17:00

ADMISSION
Adults - 1500 AMD
Schoolchildren - 500 AMD

EXCURSION
Museum
Armenian - 2000 AMD
Foreign languages - 4500 AMD
Museum and fortress
Armenian - 2500 AMD
Foreign languages - 6000 AMD

Acting Director: Karen Azatyan
Address: Erebuni str. 38
Tel.: +37410 432 661
Email: erebunimuseum@gmail.com
 

In April, 1953 at Moskovyan 40 in Yerevan by the project of architect Grigor Aghababyan the museum of Hovh. Toumanyan was opened, where more than 18000 exhibits are kept carefully. One of the greatest values of the museum - Hovh.Toumanyan's personal exceptional and various library consisted of about 8 000 volumes – is kept in a separate hall on the second floor. The copy of Tiflis «Vernatun» impresses greatly. One of the attractive corners of the museum is the panorama of « Lori gorge», the view of which is accompanied by the music from «Anoush» opera.
To reach this museum, situated on the eminence in the center of Yerevan you should surmount 54 stairs - this number symbolize the years of life of the greatest Armenian.

Hovhannes SharambeyanCentre of Popular Creation is a unique hearth of national culture.Its mission is preservation and popularization of tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
The Centre was founded in 2011 when H.Sharambeyan Folk Art Museum and the Centre of People’s Art and Crafts were joined up.
The exhibits of Popular House founded in 1930s by the efforts of an ethnographer and folklore specialist HabetnakBabayan served as the basis for Folk Art Museumsin Yerevanand Dilijan.
The collection(about 10.000 samples) includes works of art processing of wood, stone, metal, articles of ceramics, lace, embroidery, rugs and carpets, paintings by self-educated painters.
Donations by the Armenian Diaspora take a particular place in the Collection.
The exclusive samples of the Centre have been displayed in Russia, France,Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Austria, China, Iran, Syria and other countries.

The Yerevan Museum of Modern Art presents the key works of famous Armenian artists of the 1960s.
The Yerevan Museum of Modern Art was founded in 1972 by Henrik Igityan with the support of Yerevan Mayor Grigor Hasratyan and famous Armenian artists. As a modern art museum, it was the first in the former Soviet Union.
The museum's first exhibition consisted entirely of works by Armenian artists of the 1960s, donated by them. In 2007, the museum's new building began to display the works of the younger generation.
The main focus of the exhibition at the Yerevan Museum of Modern Art is the works of Minas Avetisyan, Ashot Hovhannisyan, Martin Petrosyan, Hagob Hagopian, Gayane Khachatryan, Vruir Galstyan, the Elibekyan brothers, Haroutiun Galentz, Rudolf Khachatryan, Ashot Bayandur and other famous artists.
80s Among the artists represented in the museum are the works of Kamo Nigaryan, Marine Dilanyan, Albert Hakobyan, Samvel Baghdasaryan, Arevik Arevshatyan, Ruben Grigoryan, Armen Gevorgyan, Sona Banoyan, Vahan Rumelyan, Moko Khachatryan, Gagik Ghazanchyan, Tigran Matulyan, Mushegh Mkhitaryan, Teni Vardanyan, Gabriel Manukyan, Sargis Hamalbashyan, Arthur and Ararat Sargsyan, as well as the sculptures of the famous American-based painter and sculptor Emil Kazaz and the Canadian-Armenian artist Karen Petrosyan.

OPENING HOURS
Tuesday to Saturday: 11:00 - 18:00

ADMISSION
Adults – 1500 AMD
Students – 1000 AMD
Pupils – 500 AMD

EXCURSION
Armenian - 2000 AMD
Foreign languages - 4000 AMD

Director: Nune Avetisyan
Address: Mashtots Ave. 7
Tel.: +37410 535 359
Website: www.mamy.am
Email: yerevanmodernartmuseum@gmail.com
 

The museum was founded in 1970 as a museum dedicated to the victory in the World War II (architect R. Israelyan). The general plan of the building resembles St Hripsime church and at the same time it serves as a pedestal of Mother Armenia monument.
The museum hosts more than 30000 exhibits. The materials about Armenian soldiers and theirs battles during the World War II, as well as personal items belonged to Marshal Hovhannes Baghramyan are preserved on the first floor. The documents related to Artsakh war-documents, photos, materials describing martial actions-are kept on the second floor.

The museum was founded in 1921 initially as the museum of literature 9founder-Ye. Shahaziz). It functioned in the museum of cultural-historical museum of Armenia. In 1954 the museum was formed on the base of materials of museums of literature, drama and the musical laboratory of R.Melikyan.
Till 1962 the museum was named museum of literature and art of Arm SSR Academy of Science, then of the Arm SSR Ministry of Culture. Since 1967 it has been named after Ye. Charents. The samples of Armenian literature from Sayat Nova up to contemporary period and the manuscrtipts, letters of art devotees, their personal and scenic things, photos ,playbills, phonograms, sculptures, paintings, personal libraries, musical instruments-all these samples are united in the museum.
More than a thousand personal archives and collections are kept in the museum nowadays including more than one million museum samples. The exhibition called “From Sayat Nova to Charents” is exhibited in the museum permanently. In parallel with the permanent exhibition various thematic exhibitions as wellas literature and musical parties, lectures, meetings with workers of culture are organized here.
Director-henrik Bakhchinyan

In accordance with the decree of the Council of Ministers of Soviet Armenia, dated February 8, 1964, the house-museum of Yeghishe Charents was founded in Mashtots avenue, 17 (formerly Lenin avenue,45) in Yerevan: in this building the poet lived in 1935-1937. It is the center studying the poet's life, his literature and culture, public and political activity, where the poet’s relics achieved us: personal things, manuscripts, documents, books, photos and other things. The most dedicatory sector of the museum is the reminiscence home where everything is preserved and exhibited as it used to be during his living there.

The museum was founded in 1988 after the first exhibition of Parajanov’s works held in People’s art Museum of Armenia. In the same year Sargis Parajanyants was allotted two adjacent constructions for dwelling and for the museum in "Dzoragyugh" ethnic quarter. The museum was opened in 1991. The main part of the collection are Parajanov’s works: drawings, texts for films, dolls, hats, as well as his furnishings and personal items brought from his house in Tiflis on his own free will when he was alive. The letters of the director written to Lily Brik, Tarkovsky, Nikulin and to other workers of culture are kept in the museum. 700 works of art are included in the exhibition. Certain segments of Parajanov's homes in Tiflis and Kiev were restored in the two halls of reminiscence.

The majority of his works were created in the years of his imprisonment.

The museum organized 56 exhibitions in Cannes, Salonika, Moscow, Rome, London, Los Angeles, Tehran, Beijing, Paris and other places.