MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES

The Geological Museum presents valuable specimens of archeology, mineralogy, volcanism, petrology, the history of useful minerals and mineral waters.

The Geological Museum was founded in 1937 on the initiative and under the direct leadership of the outstanding geologist, Honored Worker of Science, Prof. Hovhannes Karapetyan. The basis for the creation of the museum was Hovhannes Karapetyan's personal, about 4500 specimens. The first exhibition of the museum was organized on the basis of his rich collection and was later supplemented mainly with exhibits of geologists of Armenia. After the death of H. Karapetyan (1943), in 1944 the museum was named after him and operated within the system of the Geological Institute of the NAS of the RA.

VISITOR INFORMATION

The museum's approximately 12,000 exhibits are classified into sections on archeology, mineralogy, volcanism, petrology, fossils, and the history of mineral waters. Among the exhibits, the skeleton of a prehistoric trogontherium elephant discovered in a sand mine in Gyumri is particularly noteworthy.

In 2012, the museum opened a mineral exhibition hall named after the American-Armenian collector A. Dildilian, which presents 750 of the collector's 1,400 rare minerals from mines in different countries, as well as donations of various minerals from Armenian geologists.

The museum also houses the "Naturalist" eco-club, in which children of different age groups get acquainted with the geology of Armenia and current ecological problems. Open classes, educational trips, and excursions are organized regularly.

HOURS AND ADMISSION

Tuesday to Friday: 11:00-17:00

ADMISSION

Adults - 1000 AMD
Schoolchildren, students - 500 AMD

EXCURSION

Armenian - 1500 AMD
Foreign languages ​​– 2500 AMD