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 Armenia and brought them to the History Museum of Armenia. These pieces became irreplaceable witnesses of an identity, acknowledged all over the world, and an inviolable arsenal of scientific arguments.

Monuments presented at the exhibition mainly belong to a very mysterious period with many unknown ‘quantities”, when the pagan and Christian cultures co-existed. In this respect, the exhibits manifest an expressive picture of mutual permeations and transformations, unprecedented compositions and unique versions of combining ideograms and symbolic motifs.

This exhibition is a sort of invitation to the scholars to ponder over and reveal the problematic layersof identity of these old examples of the Armenian culture; it also invites the visitors to enjoy the beauty and mystery inherited from our ancestors.