The mission of the History Museum of Armenia is to preserve, replenish, study and publicize the Museum objects and collections, which represent the history and culture of Armenia and the Armenian people.
The History Museum of Armenia was founded on September 9, 1919, based on Law No. 439 of the Parliament of the First Republic of Armenia. It was initially named the “Ethnographic-Anthropological Museum-Library.” It opened its doors to visitors on August 20, 1921. The museum’s name has changed several times: it was the State Central Museum of Armenia (1922), the Cultural-Historical Museum (1931), the Historical Museum (1935), and the State History Museum of Armenia (1962). Since 2003, it has been known as the History Museum of Armenia.
The History Museum of Armenia is a cultural organization of national significance that has been engaged for over a century in acquiring, collecting, cataloguing, preserving, studying, interpreting, and exhibiting the material and intangible cultural values related to Armenia and the Armenian people. It has contributed to the development of science, education, and tourism. With a collection of over 400,000 archaeological, ethnographic, numismatic, and other artefacts, the museum strives to bridge the past and the future. The museum’s collection provides a comprehensive picture of Armenian culture and history, from prehistoric times (approximately 1.8 million years ago) to the present day. 

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The National Gallery of Armenia is the major fine arts museum in Armenia and the largest in the world with its Armenian art collection.
The National Gallery of Armenia was founded in 1921 by the decision of the Government of Soviet Armenia, as one of the five departments of the State Museum - the Art Department. Martiros Saryan was appointed the director of the museum, and the head of the Fine Arts Department was the artist Vrtanes Akhikyan. The State Museum was located on Astafyan (Abovyan) Street, in a two-story tufa building intended for a male gymnasium.
The museum building also housed a public library and a concert hall. In addition, orphaned children who had emigrated from Western Armenia found refuge here. The museum building was renovated and completed by Mark Grigoryan and Eduard Sarapyan.
The National Gallery of Armenia, as the first state museum of Armenia, was officially opened to visitors on August 14, 1921.
The Gallery's collection includes more than 42,000 exhibits of Armenian and foreign fine arts and decorative-applied art, as well as an exclusive collection of about 200,000 photographs, notebooks and letters, articles and personal belongings of documentary and artistic value, representing famous Armenian and foreign artists, important events and episodes. The collection of the National Gallery of Armenia includes highly valuable samples of Armenian and foreign art, including masterpieces by world-famous artists Hovhannes Aivazovsky, Vardges Sureniants, Martiros Saryan, Yervand Kochar, Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, Donatello, Tintoretto and other famous authors.

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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
 

The Cafesjian Center for the Arts is dedicated to bringing the best of contemporary art to Armenia.
Centre is known among Yerevan residents as the Cascade, as during the Soviet years, the old cascade with a small waterfall and a colorful mosaic of fish was located here (sculptor: Derenik Danielyan, dismantled in the 1980s).
The creation of the Cascade was the idea of famous architect Alexander Tamanyan, whose aim was to connect the central and northern parts of Yerevan with waterfalls and green areas. The Cascade was included in the first master plan of Soviet Yerevan (1924). Tamanyan's project was brought to life in the 1970s by Yerevan's chief architect Jim Torosyan, with new perceptions and ideas. Construction lasted several years and remained unfinished due to the earthquake of December 7, 1988.
In 2002, Armenian-American businessman and philanthropist Gerard Cafesjian, in cooperation with the Government of Armenia, initiated the construction of the Cascade. Over the next seven years, the complex was renovated and transformed. 
From the Special Events Hall on the top platform of the Cascade, there is a view of Yerevan and Mount Ararat. The monument “Armenia is the First Christian State” (2011) is located in this section. The complex also includes the monument dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution (architects: Sargis Gurzadyan, Jim Torosyan, 1967), which is dominant in the complex. The adjacent area contains the unfinished part of the cascade.
The Cafesjian Sculpture Garden is the area of the park in front of the cascade, with spacious alleys, flower beds, and sculptures by Fernando Botero, Lynn Chadwick, Jaume Plensa, Barry Flanagan, and others.
The number of steps in the Cascade is 572. The distance from the base to the upper platform is 450 m. The width is 50 m, the height of the unfinished part is 78 m.
With the aim of creating a museum of contemporary art and cultural center, the Cafesjian Museum Foundation in the USA opened the Cafesjian Museum Foundation in Yerevan in November 8, 2009, and the newly built Cascade complex was transformed into the Gerard L. Cafesjian Center for the Arts, where the rich collection of art works donated to Armenia by the Cafesjian family is presented (more than 5,000 items).
The complex is architecturally designed with spacious platforms on a sloping relief (15° inclination), where exhibition halls are organized. The right and left stairs create a connection between all platforms. “Gallery - 1”, “Khanjyan”, “Sasuntsi Davit”, “Swarovski”, “Eagle” and other halls have been created, which have travertine wall cladding, granite floors, and interior lighting. The “Khanjyan” hall features monumental triptych murals by the renowned artist Grigor Khanjyan: “The Creation of the Armenian Alphabet”, “The Battle of Vardanank”, and “The Rebirth of Armenia”. The “Sasuntsi Davit” hall contains a wall relief of Sasuntsi Davit, the hero of the Armenian epic “Daredevils of Sassoun” (1980s, sculptor: Artashes Hovsepyan, unveiled on May 21, 2016).
The Center aims to showcase the leading trends of contemporary art in Armenia, as well as to present Armenian culture to the world.

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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
 

The Hovhannes Toumanian Museum preserves and exhibits the literary and material heritage of the great poet.
In 1949 on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of Hovhannes Toumanian's birth, under the leadership of the First Secretary of the Central Committee Grigor Harutyunov, the government decided to build a museum in Yerevan in honor of his everlasting memory and for preservation of his literal and material heritage.
On April 5, 1953, at 40 Moskovyan Street in Yerevan, the museum of the famous writer, translator, and storyteller Hovhannes Toumanian was opened. The author of the main building was the chief architect of Yerevan Grigor Aghababyan.
There are more than 19 000 exhibits at the museum.
The 54 steps leading to the museum symbolize the years of the poet's life. A high relief of Hovhannes Toumanian is attached to the left-hand retaining wall of the staircase (sculptor Ghukas Chubaryan, bronze, 1971).
Due to renovation and reconstruction works, the Hovhannes Toumanian Museum is temporarily relocating to the building of the “Hrant Matevossian” Cultural Center-Museum instead of the address at 40 Moskovyan. The exhibition is presented on two floors. The exhibition on the first floor is called “ Toumanian the Reader”. The writer’s bookshelves, a cozy corner from the living room of his Tbilisi apartment and other exhibits are presented. The exhibition on the second floor is dedicated to the activities of “Vernatun”. Here, various parts of Toumanian’s last Tbilisi apartment have been reproduced.

Address: Yerevan, Abovyan 51/1
Tel.: 011 560 021, 094 516 021

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The Museum of Folk Arts named after Hovhannes Sharambeyan is one of the unique centers of national culture, with a mission to preserve, ensure continuity, and promote the values of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. 
The museum building, constructed in the 1930s (architect: Varazdat Arevshatyan), originally belonged to the Institute of Fine Arts. After renovations, the institute’s small classrooms were transformed into spacious and bright exhibition halls. 
The building is a two-storey, built of smooth tuff and with a midis laying. The façades are decorated by a rhythmic system of pilasters crowned with ornamental capitals, merlon-lined cornice. The entrance is emphasized with a barrier(parapet). Several folk artisans participated in the interior decoration work, and the unique design of some parts of the interior was created based on sketches by renowned artist Grigor Khanjyan. Martiros Saryan, Hakob Kojoyan, Gabriel Gyurjian and others also took part in the collective works. The museum has a branch in Dilijan and a Wood Carving Gallery on Paronyan Street in Yerevan. Currently, due to renovation work, only the Wood Carving Gallery is temporarily operating at 4 Paronyan Street.
The museum was founded in 1978 through the efforts of Hovhannes Sharambeyan, a distinguished artist and cultural figure of the Armenian SSR and a devoted admirer of national culture. The collection is based on items from the House of Folk Art, established in 1937 by ethnographer and folklorist Abetnak Babayan.
The museum's collection includes works of art made from wood, metal, and stone, as well as embroidery, lace, carpets, tapestries, ceramics, and paintings by self-taught artists.

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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 "Mother Armenia" Military History Museum presents documentary materials related to the participation of the Armenian people in World War II and the Artsakh Liberation War.
In 1970, to mark the 25th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, the "Armenia in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" museum was opened. In 1995, it was renamed the "Mother Armenia" Military Museum and came under the jurisdiction of the RA Ministry of Defense.
The museum is located inside the pedestal of the "Mother Armenia" monument.
The Mother Armenia Memorial was built to commemorate the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War. It was opened on November 29, 1950, on the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Soviet rule in Armenia in Victory Park.
The author of the memorial complex is the famous architect Rafael Israelyan. The memorial complex housed a 17-meter-high copper statue of Joseph Stalin by People's Artist of the USSR Sergey Merkurov. In 1961, the statue was removed, and in 1967, a 22-meter-high copper statue of "Mother Armenia" by People's Artist of Armenia, sculptor Ara Harutyunyan, was installed on the same pedestal. The sculptor managed to create a connection between the new sculpture and the old pedestal through both composition and decorative details. The preserved fragments of Stalin's sculpture (eye and shoe) helped him find a balance between the dimensions of the old and new monument.
The Mother Armenia Memorial Complex was designed in the structure of an Armenian three-nave basilica church, the total height is 51 meters, the height of the sculpture is 22 meters, and the length of the sword is 11 meters. The pedestal, in contrast to its rectangular exterior, is an Armenian domed three-story church inside, reminiscent of the famous St. Hripsime Church of Echmiadzin (7th century). The memorial complex is built of black tuff of various shades. The ornate arches and capitals and the copper door give the monument great splendor, and the entire panorama of the capital is visible from the high open balconies of the 4 corners.
Various samples of Soviet weapons are displayed around the pedestal. Among them are an armored infantry vehicle, an armored vehicle-152, a T-34 tank, a MiG-19 aircraft, a Katyusha BM-13, a 76 mm anti-aircraft machine gun, and a S-75 anti-aircraft missile system.
The "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier", the "Heroes' Alley" leading to it, as well as the alleys dedicated to Marshal Hovhannes Baghramyan and the Russian border guards, are also part of the overall ideological concept of the memorial complex.
The "Mother Armenia" Military History Museum has more than 30,000 exhibits. The exhibition consists of two main parts: "The Participation of the Armenian People in World War II" and "The Artsakh Liberation War".
The first floor presents materials about Armenian fighters in World War II, their campaigns, as well as the personal belongings of Marshal Hovhannes Baghramyan.
The exhibition hall on the second floor presents the documentation of the Artsakh War: documents, photographs, descriptive materials of military operations.

OPENING HOURS
Tuesday to Friday: 10:00-17:00
Saturday-Sunday: 10:00-15:00

ADMISSION
Еntrance is free.
 

Тhe Museum of Literature and Art is the largest repository of preservation and study of Armenian culture of the new period in the world․ 
The Museum of Literature and Art stores the personal archives of Armenian literature, music, theater, and cinema figures of the 19th and 20th centuries, the collections of various cultural organizations, which contain a large amount of information about the aforementioned areas of Armenian culture. Thousands of studies and articles published both in Armenia and in the Diaspora, contain all the archival documents kept in Literature and art museum. 
The Museum history begins from 1921. First it was the historiographical department of the State Cultural-historical Museum established in Yerevan. But the museum begins its main activity since 1922 under the leadership of Yervand Shahaziz, the historian and philologist, who had brought from Nor-Nakhijevan and handed over to the museum the archives of M. Nalbandyan, G. Patkanyan, Raf. Patkanyan, Hr. Khalipyan,  S. Shahaziz as well as documents, ancient books and other materials concerning the Armenians living in Nor-Nakhijevan. Before that Sayat-Novas autographic Davtar (notebook) of songs had been handed over to the museum (in October 1921) by Hovh. Tumanyan.
Since May 1953 the Museum acts under the competence of Ministry of Culture as a separate department of the Armenian State Historical Museum.
In October 1954 the Museum of Literature and Art has been formed by joining the literary and theatrical museums and  the study after Romanos Melikyan. Till 1963 the museum acted first under the competence of Academy of Sciences and from that period to nowadays under the competence of the Ministry of Culture. Since 1967 the Museum has been named after Yeghishe Charents. 
About 2,000,000 items are stored in the museum․ The collection also includes a large number of works of fine and applied art․ The museum also stores documents of great significance, such as Napoleon Bonaparte's resignation, Amadeus Mozart's letter, and so on. The Museum of Literature and Art has six branches: Hovhannes Tumanyan house-museum in Dsegh, Aksel Bakunts house-museum in Goris, house-museums of Perch Proshyan and Grigor Ghapantsyan in Ashtarak, house-museums of Silva Kaputikyan and Derenik Demirchyan in Yerevan. The collection of Iranian-Armenian artist and founder of earthen art Markos Grigoryan is also a part of the museum's collection.

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The Yeghishe Charents house-museum is a scientific center for the study of the poet's life, literary-cultural, social-political activities. 
The Yeghishe Charents House-Museum was founded in 1964 by the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR by the decision of February 8, in the Yerevan apartment where Charents lived in 1935-1937. The grand opening took place on January 30, 1975. In February 1978, during the celebration of the poet's 80th birthday, the first floor of the same section of the building was allocated to the poetry hall. Subsequently, the second and basement floors were allocated to the museum. In 1987, on the occasion of Charents’s 90th birthday, the building underwent partial modifications, and by the decision of the Council of Ministers of the Armenian SSR, the museum's area was expanded (architect: Karen Aleksanyan). The building is constructed with pink tuff. The entrance to the museum is emphasized with a combination of black granite and basalt.
The Yeghishe Charents House-Museum covers an area of 626.3 square meters, including the memorial restored to resemble the times of Charents. In the house-museum, the items brought from Yeghishe Charents' foreign trip (1924-1925) and the unique art samples are especially noteworthy. The museum organizes various events, including exhibitions, literary-musical evenings, lectures, thematic classes, concerts, meetings, presentations, poetry days, Charents readings, educational programs, etc. The museum holds thematic lectures, temporary exhibitions.

HOURS AND ADMISSION

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The Museum of the outstanding filmmaker and artist Sergey Parajanov is one of the most visited museums in Yerevan.
In 1988, the Council of Ministers of the Armenian SSR allocated two adjacent buildings in the Dzoragyugh ethnographic district for a private house and museum for the world-famous filmmaker and artist Sergei Parajanov (Sargis Parajanian, 1924-1990). The project was developed in the Dzoragyugh ethnographic district restoration workshop (architect: Arshak Ghazaryan). The two-story building was constructed in the style of folk residential architecture, with wooden balconies and an inner courtyard. 
Sergey Parajanov museum was founded in 1988 and opened in 1991, one year after his death. It is one of the most visited museums in Yerevan. The museum preserves Parajanov's creative legacy, including collages, assemblages, film sketches, dolls, hats, personal belongings, and gifts from friends. In total, the collection comprises approximately 1,763 items. Sergey Parajanov's works are unparalleled in world art. His creations stand out for their exceptional craftsmanship, vivid imagination, and wit. The unique charm and brilliance of his works lie in the diversity of objects and materials he used. In Parajanov's aesthetic system, plastic arts, inspired by Armenian, Eastern, and European artistic traditions, hold a special place. Over the years, the museum has organized 67 exhibitions in more than 35 countries, including Germany, Turkey, Italy, Russia, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Poland, Belarus, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia, the USA, and others. These exhibitions were primarily held within the framework of film festivals or by invitation from renowned museums. In addition to exhibitions of original works, the museum has also organized photography exhibitions in various countries.

HOURS AND ADMISSION

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