MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES

HISTORY MUSEUM OF YEREVAN

Yerevan History Museum is one of the highest cultural and scientific centers in the Armenian capital and represents the cultural heritage of Yerevan.

Audio guide

01. Introduction

02. Yerevan Cave

03. Ancient exhibit Obsidian

04. Shengavit

05. Karmir Berd

06. Ceramic vessels of the 2nd millennium BC Avan-Arinj

07. Bronze figurines of a wild boar and a bull

08. Kingdom of Van

09. Painting of the god Khaldi

10. The rite of cremation Urartian

11. Winemaking

12. Karmir Blur

13. Ritual rite of drinking wine, Shoe shape goblets

14. Statuette of Teisheba

15. Bronze shields

16. Urartian army, archers

17. Hellenistic culture and Avan Arinj

18. Model of Yerevan

19. Avan Cathedral

20. Frescos of Poghos-Petros church

21. Model of Katoghike

22. Coins on pyramid

23. Painting of Sedrak Arakelyan Ghantar

01. Capture of Yerevan fortress

02. Vasiliy Behbutyan

03. Nerses Ashtaraketsi

04. Interior of the house of wealthy Yerevan residents

05. Crafts in old Yerevan

06. City Duma

01. Yerevan before and after joining the Russian Empire

02. Yerevan in the beginning of the 20th century

03. Painting ''Builders of Yerevan''

04. Tamanyan's Yerevan

05. Yerevan metro

06. Education, sport, industry and art

07. Symbols of Yerevan

360 Virtual Tour of the Museum

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..

“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO

Yerevan Municipality

WORKING HOURS

Monday-Saturday -11:00-17:30

Sunday - Closed

ENTRANCE FEE

Adults - 1500 AMD

Students - 1000 AMD

Schoolchildren - 500 AMD

Educational program – 3000 AMD

EXCURSION

Armenian - 2000 AMD