The exhibition is dedicated to Toros Toramanyan, who made great contributions to the Armenian culture The Exhibition presents relics of Armenian culture from the Early Middle Ages to the 17th century. In the 1920s, Toros Toramanian gathered early medieval steles from different places in [...]
... Holy Mother of God, The messenger of people, cherub with living flesh, The queen of heaven. Immaculate as air, pure as light ... Help me, using the wings of your prayers, You, confessable Mother of the living... - Grigor Narekatsi The Exhibition presents historically formed reflectio [...]
The History Museum of Armenia was founded by the Parliament Law No. 439, September 9, 1919. It was called Ethnographic-Anthropological Museum-Library and had Yervand Lalayan as its first director. Started receiving visitors on August 20, 1921. The was renamed State Central Museum of Arme [...]
Along with sculpture and miniature painting, carpets are one of the best manifestations of the distinct culture of the Armenian people. Armenian carpets are ornamented “texts”, in which the sanctified symbols of our ancestors’ beliefs, worship and religious notions, coming from the depth [...]
On August 23, 1990, the Supreme Council adopted the Declaration about Armenia’s Independence. The absolute majority of the participants of the referendum that took place on September 21, 1991, voted for independence. On September 23, the Supreme Council declared the Republic of Armenia a [...]
On November 29, 1920, the Revolutionary Committee of Armenia with the military units of the Eleventh Army declared the sovietization of Armenia. By the Russian-Armenian Agreement of December 2, the government of the Republic of Armenia laid down its power. In the early hours of December [...]
1915 marks the beginning of the first genocide of the 20th century, the Armenian Genocide, executed in the cradle of Armenians in Western Armenia and in all the six Armenian-populated vilayets in the Ottoman Empire: the provinces of Erzrum, Bitlis, Kharberd, Sebastia, Van, Diarbekir, and [...]
In May, 1918, the Turkish troops invaded Eastern Armenia. On May 15, they captured Alexandrapol, and on May 21, the station and the village of Sardarapat. The battles went in three directions: Sardarapat, Bash-Aparan and Gharakilisa. The Battle of Sardarapat began on May 22. All Armenian [...]
In 1862, Zeytun became a major centre of struggle of Western Armenians against the national, religious and social persecutions under the Ottoman domination. As a result of the Russian-Turkish war in 1877-1878, a number of provinces in historical Armenia were ceded to Russia, forming the [...]
The examples of Armenian embroidery are connected with the traditional everyday life and costumes. The embroidered textiles and their original ornamental design with diverse compositional and colour solutions and versions are closely linked with other fields of Armenian art: sculpture, m [...]