As part of the “European Heritage Days: Living Heritage”, a long-awaited event was held at the History Museum of Armenia.

In cooperation with the museum’s partner “Megerian Carpet” cultural complex, a carpet, woven over several months in the museum’s carpet exhibition hall, was cut in front of the visitors in a solemn ceremony. The woven carpet is a reproduction of one of the examples presented in the exhibition hall, a 19th century carpet of the “Astgahavk” type.

The carpet cutting ceremony was followed by a lecture-tour “Armenian Carpet: A Living Witness of Identity”, led by Lilia Avanesyan, PhD, researcher of the Ethnography Department of the Museum.